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topography ^ Quaresmius, stating the several 
causes of that heretical kind of pilgrimage in the 
Holi/ Land, whichhe describes as "profane, vitious, 
and detestable",'^ certainly enumerates many of the 
motives which induced the author to visit that 
country, and therefore classes him among the 
** NONNULLOS NEBULOXES OCCIDENTALES li^- 
RETicos," whose remarks he had heard with so 
much indignation^ But, in doing this, he 
places him in company which he is proud to 
keep, — among men, who do not believe them- 
selves one jot nearer to salvation by their 
approximation to Mount Calvary, nor by all the 
indulgences, beads, rosaries, and crucifixes, 
manufactured and sold by the craftsmen of Jeru- 
(l) The generality of Readers, who have perused the different 
accounts published concerning the Holy Land, have not perhaps 
remarked the extent of the confusion yrevailing in the topographical 
descriptions of Jerusalem ; probably, because they have not compared 
those writings with any general plan of the city. To give a single 
example : Almost cverj' traveller, from the time of Brocardus to that of 
Mons. De Chateaubriand, mentions the "Mountain of Offence," where 
Solomon sacrificed to strange gods. According to Brocardus and to 
Adrichomius, this mountain is the northern point of the Mount of 
Olives, {Fid. Brocard. Itin. 6. Adrichom. Theat. Terr. Sonet, p. 171. 
Colon. 1G28.) and therefore to the east or north-east of the city. Maun- 
drell, (/>. 102. Journ. from Alep. to Jerus. Oxf. 1721.) and also 
Pococke, [Descrip. of the East, Plan facing p. 7- vol. 11. Lond. 1745,) 
make it the southern point. Sandi/s {Trav. p. 186. Lond. 1637) places 
this mountain to the south-west of the city. 
(2) Quaresmius, " De externa profand, sed detestahili ac vitiosd pe- 
regrinatione." Vid. EUuidatio Tenffi 5ancte, lib. iii. c.34. AntvAQZd. 
(3) Ibid, lib.v. cap. 14. 
