OF PART THE SECOND. xvii 
by the immediate presence and by the blood of 
our Redeemer — holy, as the habitation of Pa- 
triarchs, Prophets, and Apostles — " Quam ter- 
RAM," to use the energetic language of Urban 
THE Second, in his eloquent address to the 
Council of Clermont, '' merito sanctam dixi- 
MUS, IX QUA XOX EST ETIAM PASSUS PEDIS, 
QUEM XON ILLUSTRAVERIT ET SAXCTIFICAVERIT 
VEL CORPUS, VEL UMBRA SaLVATORIS, VEE 
GLORIOSA PR.ESEXTIA SAXCTE DeI GeXITRICIS, 
VEL AMPLECTEXDUS ApOSTOLORUM COMMEATUS, 
VEL Martvrum SAXGUIS EFFUSUS," 
Yet, while the author is ready to acknow- 
ledge the impression made upon his mind by the 
peculiar sanctity of this memorable region, he is 
far from being willing to enumerate, or to 
tolerate, the degrading superstitions which, like 
noxious weeds, have long polluted that land of 
" milk and honey /' Those who have formed 
their notions of the Holy Land, and particularly 
of Jerusalem, from the observations of Adri- 
CHOMius, Sandys, Doubdan, Maundrell, 
Thevexot, or even from the writings of 
Pococke, and the recent entertaining pilgrimage 
of Mons. De Chateaubriand*, will find their 
(o) Published in London, Oc/ober 1811, when this Volume was 
nearly completed. The author has not yet seen the original French 
edition of Mons. De CMicauhrlancT s work. 
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