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ln great numbers. At four o’clock we came to 
Kama, and alighted at the fine convent, which, if 
Ve except Jerufalem, is the beft in the Holy Land. 
In the afternoon of the 7th, the Prefident at the 
Holy Sepulchre in Jerufalem went with the greateft 
Part of the Monks to the church, where the Holy 
Sepulchre is, to remain there till Eafter day, after 
l hey had firft made a holy viut in the morning of 
4th, to the place where the garden Gethfemane 
had been. About three o’clock in the afternoon, 
l he Monk, who was appointed to wait on me, con- 
^u&ed me to the famous temple where the places 
^cre fliewn, which Chrift, by his fufferings, death 
and burial, has immortalized in memory. Before 
l he door of the temple is a little place, to which one 
aefcends by a flair cafe of ten or twelve fteps. This 
er ves for a market, in which Paternollers were the 
?hief commodity. The place on which the temple 
Js built, is faid to be that which formerly was called 
p°lgotha, or the place of Skulls. The Europeans 
J magine this is a hill or rifing ground ; it is quite the 
5 °ntrary, a vale or deep ground. We now went 
>nt 0 t he temple, which at its entry had two doors, 
° ne befide the other, but one of them was walled 
"P- Before the entry we found three Turks, 
a Scherif or Lawyer, a Janiffary, and a Bo- 
J n gi, who were ordered thither by the Regency 
the country. The bufinefs of the firft is to 
^jtrk down the names of thofe who go in, for 
a |’ Ce of the payment, which the Turkifh Regency 
^kes from the Chriftians who vifit this place, as it 
^elongs to the Turks. The latter fhould take care 
^nd prevent quarrels between Chriftians of various 
^nominations, who pay their devotions here. The 
ir thing I was {hewn at my entrance, was the ftone 
° u */hjch Chrift’s body, as they fay, was laid and 
anointed 
