ACRE. 100 
afford any satisfactory description of tliem\ chap. 
Many superb remains were observed by us, in 
the Pashas palace, in the Khan, the Mosque, the 
public bath, i\\e fountains, and other works of the 
town ; consisting- of fragments of antique marble, 
the shafts and capitals of granite and marble 
pillars, masses of the vercl antique breccia, of 
antient serpentine, and of the Syenite and trap of 
Egypt. In the garden of Djezzars palace, 
leading to his summer apartment, we saw some 
pillars of yellow variegated marble, of extra- 
ordinary beauty; but these he informed us he 
had procured from the Ruins of desarea, upon 
the coast between j4cre ,and Jaffa^, together 
with almost all the marble used in the decora- 
tions of his very sumptuous mosque. A beau- 
tiful fountain of white marble, close to the 
(5) The avithor of the T^oyage de la Terre Sainte enters into some 
detail concerning every one of these ruins. According to him, three 
of the churches were originally dedicated to St- Saba, St. T/wmas, and 
Si. Nkholus ; there was also another churcii, dedicated to St. John. 
(See Voy. dela T.S.p. 597.) In the magnificent edition of the Account 
of the Holy Landhy Chriitkin. AdriclMmius, printed at Cologne in 1628, 
we have the following enumeration of public edifices in Acre, when the 
city was an episcopal See, under the archbishop of Tyre. " Itisigne 
hie fuit tcmplum S. Cruets, et alteriim S. Sabbcp, atqiie hospitale domi- 
norum Teutniiicorinn. AW noti munithsimu cnstru et turres ; inter qiias, 
ilia quant nialedictam appellant excellehal. ^dcs turn publica turn 
privatcE, magnificcB atque pulcherrimcB." Adrichomii Thcatrum Terra 
Sanct<e, p. 6. Colon. 1528. 
(6) The Ruins of Cesarea are about fifteen or twenty miles to th.e 
south of the point of the Promontory of Mount Curmcl. 
