158 TRAVELS TO THE EAST. 
Vie fame kind of filh lliould here be met with as 
the Nile, Charmuth, Silurus, Boenni, Mulfil, aiu 
Sparus Galilseus. The water in this river is hve^’ 
but not very cold, though wholefome. _ . 
Tiberias is a little town, half or it inhabit 
by Arabs, who are the mailers, and the other ha 
by Jews, who pay taxes to the former. The Ch' r 
Ilians have no liberty here ; and if there are fo' r ‘ e 
few, they are not known to be fuch. The to^ 
has lately been fortified by the frequently-mefl 1 ' 
tioned Scheck Baker, who was born here, a 11 " 
reigns alfo fupreme lord. He has ordered the to" 11 
to be furrounded with a wall, and built a cable ° n 
a hill without the town. He had, however, n ° 
more than fix ftnall iron cannon in this work of tie' 
fence ; but he ufed another method, more antic** 
than cannons for defending forts. He ordet^ 
loole Hones to be laid on the top of the wall L ,ul . 
feet high, which, in cafe of a fiege, might be rol] e 
down and crufh the befiegers. Since he has fortin e 
the town, it has been once befieged by the Bafh a '' 
of Seide, the marks of which are yet to be feen 1 
the wall, but it was not taken. 
The 4th early we left Tiberias, and faw on ta 
right Bethulis or Saphet, whither the Jews go 
of devotion to fpend their vacant time. We aft e ^ 
wards followed the broad ridge of a hill which b a 
dales on each fide. On the right hand fide, ab° u 
a league from Tiberias, the place was (hewn wh erC 
Chrift gave food to 4000 men ; on which lay a h^P 
of Hones in memory of it. Farther on we faW _ 
mountain or hill where Chrift preached his fermo 11 ^ 
it is high, ftony, . and rugged. At the foot of r q 
mountain the Arabians had an encampment ; * 
thefe I w-ent to fee the manner of living of th e ^ 
uncivilized people. Their women are hideous ; 
