i5o TRAVELS TO THE EAST. 
Jacob dwelt. If the palace of this Patriarch was 
like thofe mod ufed to this day in Palxffine ; 
namely, a tent made of a coarfe rugg ; thefe ruins 
do not deferve the honour of his name. 
The 2 id, in the afternoon, I fet out from Jeru- 
falem, in company with a number of Monks; and 
had terrible roads for four leagues from the city. 
The Convent of St. Jeremiah was quitted and de- 
ftroyed, after the Monks had long ago been mur- 
dered there. Here we paid caffar. We had now ano- 
ther view of the Mediterranean Sea, from the mount- 
ains of Judea. This was a very hard day’s journey, 
and which fcarcely afforded us a drop of water to 
cool our throats. In the evening we came to Rama. 
The 2 2d, we faw St. George’s church in Rama; 
which is an ancient magnificent building under 
ground, with well - conditioned columns, covered 
with a dark green Mucor, and well fituated in a 
handfome place. The church of forty martyrs had 
likewife been a fine building under ground in its 
time, but was now ruined. They further {hewed 
us the remains of a Benedictine Convent, which was 
now turned into a Mofque. Its magnificent fteeple 
was yet preferved, from which all Judea might be 
feen. The Turks fay, that thefe forty martyrs 
were forty robbers, who were punifhed with death, 
and regard them as faints in their religion, as well 
as the Papifts do in theirs ; wherefore they, at this 
time, began the pilgrimage, which they make every 
year to this place, in memory of their robbers. 
The 24th, I fet out early from Rama ; and after 
three hours returned to Jaffa, over the fine and 
fruitful plains which are between thefe two towns. 
Rama is a fmall, but pretty handfome town, ex- 
tremely well fituated on a fruitful plain, which af- 
fords wine, cotton, and corn. Tho’ it be an in- 
