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from eighteen to twenty-seven gallons, was chap. 
once common in the country. v .y .. > 
About three miles bej^ond Cana, we passed 
the village of Turan. Near to this place they Turan. 
pretend to shew the field where the Disciples 
of Jesus Christ plucked the ears of com upon 
the Sabbath-day'. The Italian Catholics have 
named it the field " clegli Setti Spini;'' and they 
gather the bearded wheat, which is annually 
growing there, as a part of the collection of 
relics to be conveyed to their own country. 
The heat of this day was greater than any to 
which we had yet been exposed in the Levant; 
nor did we afterwards encounter anything so 
powerful. Captain Culverhouse had the mis- 
fortune to break his umbrella; — a frivolous 
event in milder latitudes, but here of so much 
importance, that all hopes of continuing our 
journey depended upon its being repaired. 
Fortunately beneatii some rocks, over which 
we were then passing, there were caverns*, cavem?. 
excavated by primaeval shepherds, as a shelter 
iZ) Luhe\\.\. Matth.xn.l. Mark i'l. 23. 
(4) Small reservoirs for containing water, of great antiquit}, some 
in the form of basons, appeared in these caverns. 
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