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art IL Travels into the l^^v A^T. ic? 
Miracles are daily wrought there, and that feveral Tick Turks, having fpent 
a Night in that place, have next Morning come out in perfeft health : On 
that Saint's Holy day, many People, Men, Women and Children, afwell 
Turks as Chriftians repair to that Tomb. At the entry into the Court where 
it is, on the left hand, there is a place defigned for burying of thofe who 
die for the Faith of Jefus Chrifi ; and when any Chriftian departs, his body 
is firft brought to that place, where having faid the office for the dead, it is 
carried to the place appointed for its burial. 
Being come out of that place vv^e kept Itreight along by the City-Walls ; Thsplacewheré 
and fhortly after came to the place where St. Faul was let down in a Basket P'lui was 
over the Wall. There is a Gate there which.the Turks have walled up, be- 
caufe they are perfwaded that the City will never be taken but by that Gate ; The fatal gate. 
and over it they have put a great Stone with Ibme lines in Arabick cut on it, 
intimating that that is the place where St. Paul the Apoftle of Jefus came 
down to (ave himfelf from the Jews. 
Afterwards we returned into the City by the Gate called Bab-Tchiaour, tve Bab-Tchiaouf^ 
went into the ftreight-Street, and following it, came into a very large fair 
Bazar, covered with a high ridged Timber-roof, and full of fhops on both 
Mes ; it is called the Bazar of fluffs becaufe nothing elfe is (bid there ; an;i I T/;e Bazar of 
learned by the by that the Rotte of Damafcus is a weight anfwerine to five ^^"ff^- 
French ^onnàs. . . mafcu/ 
Having crofled over half of that Bazar , which is very long, we ftruck ofF 
to the left hand, and through a little ftreet went tothe houfeof Jz/^^j, which Thehoufeof 
is cMq by ; where it is believed in that Country that St. Paul lay hid three J"das. 
days, and that Ananias went to him there. V'Ve went into that houfe, which 
was heretofore a fair and large Church, and there is ftill to be (een a lovely 
Iron-Gate through which we pafled ; and then came into a little Chamber, 
where the Tomb of Ananias is, railed againft the Wall, over which there is T/je Tomb of 
a green Cloath, and on it Arabick Letters ftitched; I read them, and found ■^"^nias, 
thefe words, Veli Allah, el Ahmed ri'van, that is, the Holy God Ahmed flcep- 
ing or buried here. The Turks have a great refpeft for it, and they have ta- 
ken that houfe, becaufe of the profit they make on't from ûieFrancks, who 
give them fomewhat when they go thither. 
We then returned into the Bazar of Stuffs, or the Streight-fireet, and on 
the left hand from thence, we came near to a Gate, which leparates that Ba- 
zar of Stuffs, from another Bazar at the end of it, where there is a Fountain, 
with the Water whereof, (they fay,) A.nantas baptifèd St, Paul : Having pafTed 
that Gate, we entered into another Bazar, which is ftill in the Streight-jheet, 
the beginning of which is covered with a high-ridged Roof, and the reft with g^j, t j^.^ 
aflat, fupported with round Joy fts : They fell ftuffs there alfo. At length TheeUtfthe 
we came to the City-Gate called Bab-Jabie where the ftreight-ftreet ends. flreight^Sneeu 
Having without it, turned a few fteps to the left hand, we were got into a 
large Bazar, where they fell wooden Boxes. This is the largeft Bazar of all 5 
it has a high ridged Timber-Roof,upheld by feveral great ftone- Arches at con- 
venient Diftances: That place is called Sinanie from the Name of a Bajl^a A Bazar m/- 
of Damafcus named Sinan, who built it, as he did many other fair publick l^d Sinanie. 
Fabricks in feveral parts oïTurkey, and all his Works bear his Name. 
As you enter into that Bazar without the Gate, you feethegreeAMofque, Tfe green 
fo called becaufe it hath a Steeple faced with green glazed Bricks, which ren- Mofque. 
ders it very refplendant ; it is covered on the Top with a Pavillion of the 
fame fluff, except the Spire of the Steeple which is covered with lead. We 
pafTed before the door of that Mofque, and I faw during the fhort time that 
I durft confider it, a large Court, paved -with lovely Stones, with a Bafbn or 
Fountain of Water in the middle ; at the end of that Court there is a Portico 
fupported by eight Marble-Pillars of the Corinthian Order, of which the fix 
middlemoft are chamfered ; thefe Eight Pillars uphold lb many little domes 
leaded over, that cover the Portico, through which they enter into the Mofque 
by three doors. It hath a large Dome covered over with lead, and on the Weft 
fide, there is a Steeple or Minaret faced in the faras manner, and covered 
with a Pavillion of the fame matter. 
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