154 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP. Egmont and Heyman found the vaulted part of 
* — V ' the building, facing the east, entire'; and it 
has sustained no alteration since their time. 
Maundrell-, Hasselquist^ , and PococJce'^, allude 
slightly to its remains. In this survey, it is 
not easy to account for the disregard shewn to 
a structure highly interesting in the history of 
antient architecture ; or to the city of which it 
was the pride, once renowned as the metropolis 
of Galilee. 
Here, protected by the stone roof of the 
building from the scorching rays of the sun, our 
party were assembled, and breakfasted upon 
(1) Travels through Europe, Aim, &c. vol. II. p. 15. Ijond. 1759. 
(2) He calls the place Sepharia. " On the west side of the town 
stands good part of a large church, built on the same place where 
they say stood the house of Joachim and Anna : it is fifty paces long, 
and in breadth proportionable." MaundrelVs Journ. from Alep. to 
Jerus. p.m. O.rf. 1721. 
(3) " Safuri, a village inhabited by Greeks. In this place, the 
monks who were with me alighted to honour the ruins of an old 
destroyed church, which is said to have been built in memory of 
the Mother of St. Anue and St. Mary, who are reported to have dwelt 
here." Hasselquist' s Trav. to the East, p. 153. Lond. 1766. 
(4) " There is a castle on the top of the hill, with a fine tower of 
hewn stone ; and near half a mile below it is the village of Sephoury, 
called by the Christians St. Anna, because they have a tradition that 
Joachim and Anna, ihe parents of the blessed Virgin, lived here, and 
that their house stood on the spot where there are ruins of a church, 
with some fragments of pillars of grey granite about it." Pococie's 
OLserv. on Palcestine, p. 62. Lond. 1745. 
