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tf*eir faces are bare ; they are drefled like the men, 
3 -nd have their under lip painted blew. They made 
gutter in a leather bag, hung on three poles erected 
‘ 0r the purpofe, in the form of a cone, and drawn 
10 and fro by two women. We were next (hewn 
Replace where thedifciples plucked the ears of corn; 
here was alfo a heap of hones. We now met with 
haieftone and Olive-trees, which are not to be feen 
ar ther in the country of Galilee. 
Cana in Galilee is a little village, inhabited by 
^ 0l nan Catholic Greeks : the church over the place 
Chrift changed water into wine has nothing 
e ‘t but the walls, being without a roof. The vef- 
tr y room is inhabited by peafants. In the church 
. the village they (hew a (tone veflel, three feet 
1 1 diameter, and half a foot in height, which they 
is one of the jars filled with water, that was 
Ranged into wine, and a (kull, which they revere 
0r that of St. Athanalius. 
i. The 5th, in the morning, we went out to fee the 
jJ'M, from which the inhabitants of Nazareth were 
throwing down Chrift when he preached to 
tietn. This is a highftony mountain, (Ituated fome 
| Ull -(hot9 from Nazareth; confiding of the lime- 
■ common here, and full of fine plants. On 
j- s t0 P, towards the fouth, is a deep r,ock, which is 
j to be the fpot for which the hill is famous : it 
le rrible to behold, and proper enough to take 
a ^y the life of a perfon thrown from it. Jaffa is 
Village comprehended in the number of thofe the 
, °nks rent; thither we went in the afternoon. 
r * e ttionks make devout journies hither in reve- 
th' 02 to t ^ le pl’ ace » where they fay Zebedee lived : 
f-i e y fltew it in a garden full of pomegranates and 
i t 2j tr ees, which the monks have planted here ; and 
VVas the only one I faw in Galilee, being agree- 
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