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HOLY lAND. 
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cure performed by our Saviour upon a maniac in the j 
of the Gadarenes, these tombs are particularly 
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and their existence to this day, (altJiough they 
neither noticed by priests not pilgrims, and have ^ 
the ravages of the Empress Helena, who would, un 
edly, have shaped them into churches,) offers strong ^ |,j( 
nal evidence of the accuracy of the Evangelist (//< 
recorded the transaction : ‘ There met him out 
tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his d" 
among the tombs’ ” 
NAPOLOSE, OR SICHEM. 
“ There is nothing in (he Holy Land finer than 
of this city from the surrounding heights. As ' 
descends towards it from 
embosomed in 
the hills, it appears lux 
.1. the most delightful and fragrant 
half concealed by rich gardens, and by stately trees 
into groves, all around the bold and beautiful ./jl'i' 
which it stands. I'he traveller, directing his fouls' 
• ■ tl'e ,il 
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everlasting as 
W'ards its ancient sepulchres, us e\eiuisiiiig .... nor'i,' 
wherein they are hewn, is permitted, upon the aut 
sacred and indelible record, to contemplate the spu 
the remains of Joseph, of Elcazar, and of JoshiU' 
severally deposited. ,5 cf'’ 
“ In the time of Alexander the Great, Sicheni 
sidered as the capital of Samaria. Its inhabiU'U- ..p' 
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ansi5t'-‘ 
,,4 obJ*^ . 1 , '' 
P‘U YY'llld'll 
veneration among them is Jacob's WTll, ovei 
church was formerly erected. This is situated a 1"^, 
distance from the town, in the road to JerusaleiUi jii 'j 
been visited by pilgrims of all ages ; but jrarticu * 
the Christian aera, as the place where our Saviu'U 
himself to the woman of Samaria. 
SiUCiCU rta MIK: CC^.'lLai V<A . 
called Samaritans, not merely as people of SamariUj 
sect at variance with the other Jews. They coii.s"’! -j. 
cipally of deserters from Judara. The principal ,,;y-1ij 
MOSQUE OF OMAR. 
Doctor Clarke, on viewing this Mosque, ob-sO' 
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111 I I, I 
“ the sight w'as so grand, that he did not 
nouncing it tire most magnificent jriece of juL 
the Turkish empire ; and, considered externally’ i,., 
rior to the mosque of Saint Sophia in Constantu) t 
