i 4 o TRAVELS TO THE EAST. 
others of filver gilt, and all enriched with pf { ' 
cious (tones. The Prieft’s garments are all mad c 
of the molt magnificent (luffs from India, and 3 
great part of them adorned with precious fion^: 
The lamps in the church are all of filver, ■ w 
wrought, and hung in fine order, being worth 3 
confiderable fum. All thefe ornaments were tb ,s 
day put on a large table in the choir, in ord^ f 
to their being exhibited to the public on 
James’s day. The ornaments of the Latins 
magnificent, and perhaps made in a better taff e ’ 
but they themfelves own that the Armenian » re 
richer. The Greeks in this refpeft are not to 
compared with either of them. 
Without the town I faw, i. The Sepulchr^ 
of the Kings, cut in a limeftone mountain; but thw 
are not to be compared to thofe of Alexandria. 1 
doors were of a harder limeftone, and turned 
two hinges in the nature of axles. 2. Tire cate 0 
Jeremiah, where he wrote his book of Lamentati^- 
3. The prifon of Jeremiah, which is a ditch full { 
water : here flood the coffin of an ancient Kingr 0 
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of w’hich the Turks water their horfes. 4- 
Stephens gate, and befide it the place where 
Martyr was ftoned, which is a little remark^ 
rock. 5. St. Mary’s Sepulchre, over which is ere^* 
an handfome church, but without ornaments. ^ 
fore it is a fine court, in which grew a Bird Che^ 
tree, or Cherry Laurel (Padus) three fath 0 ^ 
round. You defcend to the church, by a ftair-c 8 j 
five fathoms broad, containing forty -fix ftep s> j. 
faw a fanftuary belonging to the Latins, in whi^ , 
dug a coffin of marble ; and the graves of St. 
and St. Joachim on one fide of the (tair-cafe, and ^ 
jofeph’s on the other. 6 . The cave where Ch* 
iweated blood, cut out in the mountain, with »° t 
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