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CHAP. 
IV. 
Land: these antiquities are so exceedingly 
rare, that the peasants seemed unacquainted 
with the objects of our inquir\-. This was not 
the case among the y^rahs in Egj/pt, nor in any 
part of Greece. It is true the French had pre- 
ceded us, and they might have carried off the 
few which had of late years been discovered ; 
but they had weightier matters to consider, and 
the inhabitants amonsr whom we made our 
inquiry did not say they had supplied them 
with any relics of this kind. When we 
arrived in the village, we were invited to visit 
the Home of St. Anne. The proposal surprised 
us, because it was made by persons in the Arab 
dress ; but we afterwards found that the inha- 
bitants of Galilee, and of the Holy Land in 
general, are as often Christians as they are 
Mohammedans ; indeed they sometimes consider 
themselves to be equally followers of Mohammed 
and of Christ. The Druses, concerning whom, nmses. 
notwithstanding the detailed account published 
hy Niebuhr'' and by Folney^, we have never 
received due historical information, worship 
Jonas, the Prophets, and Mohammed. They 
have also Pagan rites ; and some among them 
(7) Voyage en Aralie, torn. II. p. 348. Amsterd. 1780. 
(8) Travels in Egyi)t and Syria, vol. II. f.'?,^. J/ynd. ITBT- 
