V. 
188 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, them with so much sincerity, and lamented the 
indignities to which the holy places were 
exposed in terms so affecting, that all our ^ 
pilgrims wept also. Such were the tear& 
which formerly excited the sympathy, and 
roused the valour of the Crusaders. The sailors 
of our party caught the kindling zeal; and 
little more was necessary to incite in them a 
hostile disposition towards every Saracen they 
might afterwards encounter. The ruins of a 
church are shewn in this place, which is said 
to have been erected over the spot where the 
marriage-feast of Cana was celebrated'. It 
is worthy of note, that, walking among these 
ruins, we saw large massy stone water-pots, 
answering to the description given of the antient 
vessels of the country^; not preserved^ nor 
exhibited, as relics, but lying about, disre- 
garded by the present inhabitants, as antiquities 
with whose original use they were unacquainted. 
From their appearance, and the number of 
them, it was quite evident that a practice of 
keeping water in large stone pots, aech h oiding 
(1) " Nicephorus gives an account of it, and says it was built by St' 
Helen." ^laritfs Trav. vol. II. p. 171. Land. 1791. 
(2) " And there were set there six water-pots of stone, after the manner 
of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three fiikins apiece." 
John ii. 6. 
