120 TRAVELS TO THE EAST. 
TO JERUSALEM. 
T HE 5th of April, about noon, I travelled 
from Jaffa, accompanied by my merchant 
from Leghorn, and two French Monks. We got 
from the Monks in Jaffa, whofe bufinefs it is to ac- 
commodate with neceffaries thofe who intend to vilic 
Jerufalem, miferable affes, and yet worfe faddles, 
together with ten Arabs and two Turkifh horfe- 
men to conduct us, who received us at the town’s 
end. The whole country from Jaffa to Rama con- 
fifts of little hills; between thefe are level and 
handfome vales, which extend in large plains. A 
part is turned into corn fields, but moft of it lies 
waffe. The ground here conlifls of a loofe reddifh 
fandy mould; and I have never feen in any place 
the ground fo caff up by moles as in thefe 
plains. There was fcarce a yard’s length between 
each mole hill. This is an advantageous circum- 
fiance for all forts of felf-fown wild plants; there- 
fore entire plains were covered with Buphthalmum 
foliis oblongis dentatls ; or Oxeye, with oblong 
dentated leaves; which made them much yellower 
than our Swedilh meadows are in the month of 
June, from the Caltha Paluftris and Ranunculus, 
or Marlh-marygold and Crowfoot. In other places 
the fields were white with a fort of Matricaria, 
or Feverfew. In three places, we had fine vales 
abounding with Olive-trees. Cranes, the inhabit' 
ants of uncultivated countries, were here to be found 
