J A 6 travels to the east. 
Solomon, an aqnceduft is alio fuppofed to have gone 
to Jerufalem, conveying the water to the city, and 
to the citterns in the temple. The water is yet con- 
veyed from hence to Bethlehem, and might with 
eafe be conveyed to Jerufalem, if the Bethlehemites, 
fworn enemies of the Hierofolymites, would permit 
it. The water of this fountain is wholefome, and 
not of the coldeit kind. Not far from the fountain 
is an old cattle, without doubt founded in the time of 
the Croifades, and yet in a tolerable repair, but un- 
occupied. On our return to Bethlehem, I was 
{hewn a mountain of a conic figure a great way on 
the right-hand of us, which the inhabitants to this 
day call the Frank’s mountain, in memory of the 
Croifades; when the Chriftians left marks of their 
prowefsin the very heart of the country. We tra- 
velled by Bethlehem; and a little on the other fide, 
came to the place where the angel appeared to the 
fhepherds : there is a cave into which thofe de- 
feend who are inclined to fay their prayers. Whild 
njy companions were doing this, I had an opportu- 
nity of viewing a kind of a Plough; here tiled to 
turn up the earth, on which 1 faw fomething which 
1 had never feen in any other place, viz. They fi* 
a reed along the Plough-handle to the lhare; at the 
upper end of the reed is fixed a leather funnel- 
The workman, by this invention, waters the earth 
at the fame time he is ploughing it. Under his 
left arm comes a pipe from a leather bag, filled 
with water, which hangs on his fhoulders : out of 
this he lets the water run into the funnel, which 
through the reed waters the ground as he is plough' 
ing ; a compendious method of watering the earth 
in dry weather. 1 lay this night in Bethlehert 1 ' 
arid next morning, after I had botanized in this 
neighbourhood, returned to Jerufalem. A dife ai <j 
