132 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, upon a hill, distant from Shefhamer about seven 
■ miles. Its name is still preserved, in the appel- 
SKraouKv. iatiou of a miserable village, called Sephoury. 
An antient aqueduct, vi^hich conveyed water to 
the city, now serves to supply several small 
mills. We were told, that the French had been 
quartered in all these villages ; that their conduct 
had rendered the name of a Frenchman, once 
odious, very popular among the j4rahs; that they 
paid punctually for every thing they took; and 
left behind them notions, concerning the de- 
spotic tyranny of the Turks, which the govern- 
ment of this country will not find it easy to 
eradicate. We ascended the hill to the village; 
and found the sun's rays, even at this early 
hour of the morning, almost insupportable. If 
we had not adopted the precaution of carrying 
umbrellas, it would have been impossible to 
porrt> Hebrmo Sefforin dlcimus, quanquam in scribendo Gra?cj aequ^ 
atque Latini, '2i'!r(pu^iv et Sepphorin scribant." Cellarius writes it 
Scpphoris, from Josephus, {lib. iii. De Bell. cap. 3.) 'Xivipu^is f^iyifrn 
tZaa. T>)5 Va,XtXa.'ias -riXi;. Brocardus, [Theiit. Tcrr. Sand.) as from 
the Greek, Scphoroti, and Sep/iorunt; also Sephor, under which name 
it occurs in the writings of some authors. It is, according to Cellarius, 
the Zippor, or Zippori, of the Rabbins. In the Codex Palaiinus of 
Plnlemy, {lib. v. cap. 16.) the name however occurs so nearly according 
to the manner in which it is now pronounced in the country (Sa^ifoj/fa), 
that this antient reading may be preferred to any other, A curious 
etymology ol Zipporis is noticed by Cellarius, {lib. iii. c. 13. Lips. 1706.) 
" Judffiis est''"l'l2V, Zipporis, ut in Talmud. Megill fol. 6. col. 1. aiuat, 
quia monti insidet, ^'\ti')£'D sicut avis," 
