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186 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, situate on a gentle eminence, in the midst of 
one of these valleys. It is difficult to ascertain 
its exact distance from Nazarelh\ Our horses 
were never out of a foot's pace, and we arrived 
there at half past seven. About a quarter of 
a mile before we entered the village, is a 
spring of delicious limpid water, close to the 
road, whence all the water is taken for the 
supply of the village. Pilgrims of course halt 
at this spring, as the source of the water 
which our Saviour, by his first miracle, con- 
verted into wine^ At such places it is usual 
and present appearance of the country. He supplicates Jesus, who was 
then at Cana, " that he vvould come down, and heal his son." (,/o/jn iv. 47.) 
" Ut descendal, et vcniat Capernaum ; unde judicari potest," observes the 
learned Reland, " Capernaum in inferior! regionc sitam fuisse quam 
Canam. Erat autem Capernaum ad mare." How singularly this is 
confirmed by the extraordinary features of this part of Syria, will appear 
in the description given of our journey from Canti towards tlie Sea of 
Galilee, In the 51st verse of the same chapter of St. John, it is stated, 
" As he was now going down, his servants met him." His whole route 
from Cana, according to the position of the place now so called, was, in 
fact, a continual descent towards Capernaum. 
(1) Cana of Ga///te has been confounded with ■S'cp/a'?' Cana, or Cena 
Major, in the territory of the tribe of Asher : hence the discordant accounts 
given by Adrichomius, Aranda, and others, concerning its distance from 
Nazaretu. Cana Major is mentioned, as the inheritance of the tribe of 
Asher, in the 28th verse of the 1 9tli chapter of the book of Joshua, togetlier 
with Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon. Cana of Galilee (John ii. 1.) is 
often called Cana Minor. St. Jerom describes it as near to Nazareth :" 
" Haud procul inde (id est a Nazareth) cerneiur Cana, in qua aqua in 
vijiiim versa: stint." Hicron. torn. I. cpist. 17. ad Marcellam. 
(2) John, ch.ii. 
