126 travels to the east. 
We were fluewn the place where Lazarus’s Sepul- 
chre had been ; over which was ere&ed a little ftone 
hut, and the ruins of an old houfe, but no other 
figns of a town or building, which formerly mull 
have been there. After travelling two leagues, we 
refted at another old demolilhed houfe, which was 
reported to be a remarkable place by the Monks. 
It would make one fmile to be Ihewn a place where 
an affair happened, which perhaps never did hap- 
pen ; for they fay this was the place where the 
man fell in amongft the robbers, and was palled by 
the Prieft, but taken up by the Samaritan : a pa- 
rable which Chrift delivered after his ufual manner, 
and therefore cannot be affigned to any particular 
fpot. Not far from this place, is a hill on which 
the Chriftians in the time of the Croifades had a 
fort. On this road the original fituation of Judea 
may be feen, which is the fame as it hath been from 
time immemorial; though many divines contend, 
that Judea hath undergone a change, or, according 
to their manner of fpeaking, hath been transformed 
fince the death of Chrift. Judea is a country full 
of hills and vales, and as fuch it has been defcribed 
both in the Old and New Teftament; where it is al- 
ways called a hilly land, and is every where famous 
for its mountains. The hills are all of a moderate 
height, uneven, and are not of any mathematical 
figure, like many others, which are either of a 
conic, hemifpheric, or fome other fuch form. M 
firft, and neareft to Jerufalem, they confift of a very 
hard limeftone, which approaches to the nature of a 
flint, of a whitilh colour, or pretty near a pale 
yellow. They afterwards, and nearer the Dead Sea, 
confift of a more loole limeftone, fometimes white 
and fometimes greyifti; between which are layer® 
of a reddilh micaceous ftone, or Saxum purttf* 
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