TO SI D 6 N. i 6 j 
llrri c, learned to pamper nature; After all, how 
peat is the difference between good bread, and 
la *f ripe ears of wheat roafted ! 
Without the town, towards the fea fide, is {hewn 
a Sepulchre, in which three Balhaws are buried; and 
? ot far from thence a demolilhed Kan, where the . 
e netians lived at the time they traded to this town, 
in a war were all cut to pieces bv the Turks. 
°t far from the town is a well, which receives its 
dter from a fubterranean fpring, like that of Solo- 
, 0;i > and is called Sidon’s wel 1 ; as the old town of 
name extended to it, though it is now a league 
r °m the fea. The village of Elias is one of the 
jpreft to this town, where this prophet is faid to 
a Ve dwelt and performed miracles, efpecially that 
u n the widow of Zareptah*. 
. Superstition, common amongft unpoliflicd peo- 
^ e > has its principal feat in the Eafl. I have par- 
pularly found it amongft thofe who breed filk 
t i Qi ’ n ‘S, efpecially women, who have, almoft through 
c - e 'Whole world, a taint of the religion of the an- 
ti ^ ?SfP ,: * an3, as far as relates to omens and fu- 
Ipftition. They believe in almoft all parts of the 
Iph that if a ftranger fees their filk worms, all 
PPe of fuccefs is loft. This was the reafon I could 
Hj Ver fee any Silk-worms before to day, the 1 8th of 
t r p’ Either during my ftay in Smyrna, nor in all my 
i s >n Natolia and the Archipelago, where filk 
^Produced. There is a hut made of boughs of trees 
tilery garden round Seide, in which they are at 
kr tUne f ec ^> grow, fpin, and are transformed. My 
? tll arit > who was a daring Armenian, procured me 
I opportunity of entering one of thefe huts, where 
y et . 0 p teni plated this noble worm, fo common and 
cn,^ °, muc h efteemed in the Eaft, but never to be 
° u gli admired. 
I Kings xvii. 
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