FROM ACRE TO NAZARETH. \b7 
its locality, we have named Diantiius Naza- ^^^y^- 
R^us. About a mile to the south-east of ' — y — ' 
Sephoury, is the celebrated fountain so often 
mentioned in the history of the Crusades'. JJ[.^^,^5,,. 
The dress of the Arabs, in this part of the Holy 
Land, and indeed throughout all Syria, is simple 
and uniform : it consists of a blue shirt, 
descending below the knees, the legs and feet 
being exposed, or the latter sometimes covered 
with the antient cothurnus or buskin \ A cloak 
is worn, of very coarse and heavy camel's- 
hair cloth, almost universally decorated with 
black-and-white stripes, passing vertically down 
the back : this is of one square piece, with 
holes for the arms : it has a seam down the 
back, Made without this seam, it is considered 
of greater value. Here, then, we perhaps 
beheld the form and materials of our Saviour's 
of M. Poiref, ought, in an artificial system, to form a separate 
genus from Sedum in the Class Dodecandria; both their habit and 
inflorescence keeping them very distant from Sempervivum . 
(2) Ahnost all the writers who have given an account of the HoW 
JVars mention this fountain : it served as a place of rendezvous for 
the armies belonging to the Kings of Jerusaletn, particular!}' during 
the reign of Jllmerlck and Baldwin the Fourth. Vid. Gesta Dei per 
Francos, in Histor. JV. Ti/r. lib. xx c. 27. I'h. xxii. c. Iw, 19, 25. 
Hanov. iGll. IFilliam of Tyre speaks of it as between Sephoury and 
Nazareth : Convocatis Regni Principibus, juxla fontcm ilium celeber- 
rimum, qui inter Nazareth et Sephorim est." 
(3) Near to Jerusalem, the antient sandal is worn, exactly as it 
appears on Grecian statues. 
