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of Zabulon; whence, according to the triumphal chap. 
song of Deborah and Barak, issued to the battle ■ 
against Sisera ''they that handled the pen ^i"[. 
OF the whiter." The scenery is, to the full, as 
delightful as in the rich vales upon the south of 
the Crimea: it reminded us of the finest parts 
of Kent and Surrey. The soil, although stony, 
is exceedingly rich, but it is now entirely 
neglected. That a man so avaricious as 
Djezzar could not discern the bad policy of his 
mode of government, was somewhat extra- 
ordinary. His territories were uncultivated, 
because he annihilated all the hopes of industry. 
Had it pleased him to encourage the labours of 
the husbandman, he might have been in posses- 
sion of more wealth and power than any Pasha in 
the Grand Signio?-'s dominions. The delightful 
plain of Zabulon appeared everywhere covered 
with spontaneous vegetation, flourishing in the 
wildest exuberance. The same proof of its 
fertility is given by other travellers ^ As we 
proceeded across this plain, a castle, once the 
acropolis of the city of Sapphura^ appeared 
(2) Particularly by Pococke, Description of the East, vol. \\. Part I' 
Land. 1745. 
(3) lu the enumeration of the cities of Judah, (Joshua xv. 55.) tliis 
place is mentioned with Carmel, under the name of Ziph. Ami David 
is said to have hid himself with the Ziphites, in strong-holds in the 
Hill of Hachilah, (1 Sam. xxiii. I9.) Harduin, {Num. Antiq. Illuat. 
p. 450. Paris, 1C84) upon the subject of its appellation, says, "More 
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