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little trouble. They make their bee-hives of clay, 
four feet long, and half a foot diameter, as in 
Egypt : They lay ten or twelve of them on one- 
another on the bare ground, without any thing un- 
der them. Over every ten they build a little roof, 
which makes their bee-hives exactly refemble the 
dog-kennels of our peafants. They wall up the 
opening of thofe in which the bees are at work, and 
leave only a little hole for them to go in and out. 
In the empty hives, the opening is not fhut. The 
dwellings of the people were miferable huts, made 
of clay walls, in which they lay on the bare ground; 
they have a little entrance on the earth, and no 
windows, or other openings,' except a hole for the 
fmoak to go out. A little diflance from this vil- 
lage, we came to a foil quite different, being hilly 
and full of hard lime (tones, fuch as we met with 
in Judea, of which this is a continuation under the 
fame meridian thro’ feveral countries, which is fome- 
what remarkable. The fame plants are feen here 
as in Judea, which before were not very common, 
and fome fcarce to be feen, as Kali fruticofum. We 
came to Nazareth at three o’clock in the afternoon, 
after having made an agreeable journey, in a coun- 
try where there are good roads and one may travel 
in fafety. 
As foon as we were come to Nazareth in. the 
evening of the 2 d, we went to fee its remarkabl 2 
places. Thefe are, a handfome church in the con- 
vent over the fanctuary of this place, where the 
angel announced the Virgin Mary’s pregnancy! 
a ltone in the village without the convent, which 
the monks faid was the table of Chrift, at which 
he eat feveral times with his difciplcs. This lS 
large, flicks fall in the ground, and its upper lUf ' 
face declines: it is made of the hard lime-fl OIie 
conuu°h 
