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it. In the chapel of Caiaphas, the altar confided 
°f a done eight feet long and five feet high, faid 
to he the fame which had been laid on Ohrid’s 
grave at his burial, and the women would- have 
taken away, but found it too large. It was now 
covered with mortar an inch thick, and was of the 
hard limedone, common' in Paledine. In fome 
places they have left it bare, for devout Pilgrims to 
kifs : here was likewife painted Peter’s denial of 
Chrid. From thence we went out through one of 
the town gates, and came immediately on the holy 
dount Sion, fo famous in the days of David. It is 
now a defart flat and level, fltuated immediately 
tvithout the ramparts, it is occupied by, and left 
to the Chridians for a burial place, where all deno- 
Hunations of them bury their dead. Hence we 
could fee a Turkifh Mofque, with a handfome 
cupola, eroded over David and Solomon’s grave. 
In this fame place, they fay, Chrid indituted the 
Lord’s Supper, and the Holy GI10A came upon the 
■A-podles. No Chridian can approach nearer to 
this mod principal of holy places, than Sion, which 
ls at two guns (hot dt'dance. I botanized on the dry 
a ud poor Sion, and found fome common plants 
there, viz. Allium pa l lens, Vcroncnfe; Betonica offici- 
7la lis ; BJcutclla didyma ; Tr folium globofum , tc- 
0 the 
been 
Hcquainted in Smyrna. He refided in the convent 
this nation, which is the larged in Jerufalem, 
' ll ’ger than that of the I.atins, and the next to it in 
t'ches. It has above 1000 chambers for Pilgrims, 
j efide thofe of the Monks. The rich Armenian 
n ‘ Ul °n, which is more inclined to devotion, if not 
tl . ^- wo ^ or - ts °‘ f Garlick, Betony of the (hops. Buckler Milliard, 
!rce forts ot Trefoil, and the Shrubby Horlctail. 
fuperdition, 
•nentojum, refupinatum; Ephedra dijlachia *. 
The 9th in the forenoon, I paid a vifit t 
I atriarch of the Armenians, with whom I had 
