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unleavened bread, in thin cakes, served hot, chap. 
with fowls, eggs, and milk both sweet and ^ .»■ ■> 
sour. Surrounded by so many objects, causing 
the events of ages to crowd upon the memory, 
we would gladly have remained a longer time. 
We dreaded a second trial of the intense heat 
to which we had been exposed ; but Nazareth 
was only five miles distant, and we had resolved 
to halt there for the remainder of the day and 
nioht. Full of curiosity to see a place so me- 5°"*^^''^ 
o J V between 
morable, we therefore abandoned our interesting sephoury 
*^ and Naza- 
asylum in Sephoury, and once more encountered reth. 
a GalUcran sun. Our journey led us over a 
hilly and stony tract of land, having no resem- 
blance to the deep and rich soil we had before 
passed. The rocks consisted of a hard compact 
limestone. Hasselquist relates, that it is a 
continuation of a species of territory which is 
peculiar to the same meridian through several 
countries*. He found here the same plants 
which he had seen in Judea; and these, he says, 
were not common elsewhere. Among the more 
rare, he mentions the Kali fruticosum. Here- 
abouts we found that curious plant, the Hedysa- 
rum Alhagi \ together with the Fsoraiea Palastina 
(o) Travels to the East, p. 154. Ijond. 1766. 
(6) See FortkaVs Flora, p. 136. 
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