TO TIBERIAS, *57 
Arabs fometimes fight their battles ;• and the prefect 
1 ebel Daker flood for feveral months the Bafhaw of 
p e ‘de. I met here an Arabian huntfman with a 
hficon and fine dogs. The Arabs are great profi- 
ts in what relates to hunting. On leaving Efi- 
. r alon, we came to almofl naked hills and dales, hav- 
only fhrubs of Chrill’s thorn on them. With this 
Plain began the fingular (lone, of which the Tibe- 
r,a n mountains confift. We had much trouble with 
° Ur horfes in this plain, being tormented by flies 
^ n d heat. We refrefhed onrfelves in the fliade of 
? Big-tree, under which was a well, where a fhep- 
tler d and his herd had their rendezvous, but with- 
° Ut either houfe or hut. Here I beheld the oxen 
ari d cows of Galilee, which conflitute a remarkable 
P' lr t of this country’s riches. They are all of a 
Ver y fmall fize, which fhews that the climate does 
**°t occafion any difference in the growth of thofe 
Rituals ; mountainous countries and low lands 
°°ner occafion a difference in fize ; in the former 
I e black cattle are lefs than in Galilee, and in the 
* at ter larger, as in Scania and Egypt. The fame 
P r °fpe£l of hills and plains continued till we came 
j° 1'iberias, where we arrived towards evening be- 
.° r s fun-fet. We w T ent immediately, without aliglit- 
from our horfes, to the hot baths in this town, 
j *cre I tarried long enough to deferibe the water, 
S fediment, and the places that were adjacent. We 
°°k our night’s lodging in an old church built over 
e place, where Peter received the important keys, 
il; ch his fucceffor afferts are in his poffcffion : we 
drank, and flept in this holy place, which now 
fcarcely a roof, and ferves the Arabians only 
° r a liable. We afterwards went out to the fhore 
k the fea Tiberias, and had fome fifli brought us 
^ the fifhermen. I thought it remarkable, that 
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