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the Arabs insisted upon halting, to prepare 
their coffee. Shepherds appeared in the plain, 
with numerous droves of cattle ; consisting of 
oxen, sheep, and goats. As evening drew on, 
we reached the foot of a hill, where the village 
of Shefhamer' is situate. It is visible in 
the prospect from Acre, and stands upon the 
western declivity of a ridge of eminences, rising 
one above another, in a continuous series, 
from Lihanus to Carmel. The land, uncultivated 
as it almost everywhere appeared in Djezzars 
dominions, was redundantly fertile, and much 
covered with a plant exhibiting large blossoms Plants 
of aggregated white flowers, resembling those 
of the wild parsley : I believe it to have been the 
Cachrys Libanotis. Of all the plants we noticed 
during our journey, this is the only one we 
neglected to add to our Herbarium, from an 
absurd notion that what appeared so common 
might be had any where, and at any time. It 
disappeared when our distance from the sea 
was much increased. The variety and beauty 
(5) Written Shafa Avire by D^Anville, in his Carte de la Phcenicie, 
published at Paris in 1780. In Egmont and Hit/man's Travels (vol. II. 
p. 15) the same village is called Cdafamora ; and in the Journal of one 
of the party who was with tlie author, he finds it written Clieffliavibre. 
Thus is there no end to the discordance caused by writing the names of 
places merely as they seem to be pronounced ; particularly among 
travellers of different countries, when each individual adopts an ortho- 
graphy suited to his own language. 
