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of every Christian virtue. We left our route to chap. 
visit this elevated spot: and having attained v,, .y , / 
the highest point of it, a view was presented, 
which, for its grandeur, independently of the 
interest excited by the different objects con- 
tained in it, has nothing to equal it in the 
Holy Land^. 
From this situation we perceived that the view from 
1 • 1-111 *^^* Keru- 
plam, over which we had been so long riding, ei-Ham. 
was itself very elevated. Far beneath appeared 
other plains, one lower than the other, in a 
regular gradation, reaching eastward, as far 
as the surface of tlie Sea of Tiberias, or Sea 
(o) This hill is called Kern-el- Hutin in Pococke's Trawls, signifying 
the Horns of Hutin," there being a mount at the east and west end 
of it ; and so called from the village below, which he writes Hutin. 
We wrote it, as it was pronounced, Hatti. Pococke has enumerated 
the objects he beheld from this spot, in a note to p. (jj. Parti, of th* 
Second f^olmne of fiis Description of the East. " To the south-west I 
saw Jebel-Sejar, extending to Sephor ; Elmiham was mentioned to the 
south of it : I saw the tops of Carmel, then Jebel-Turan, near the 
Plain of Zabuloti, which RT^i&nAs] to Jebel- Hutin. Beginning at the 
north-west, and going to the north-east, I saw Jehel-lgeimick, about 
which they named to me these places, Sekeenen, Elbany, Sejour, Nah, 
Rameh, Mogor, Orady Trcnon, Kobresiad ; and further east, on other 
hills, Meirom, Tokin on a hill, and IVouesy ; and directly north of 
Hutin is Saphet ; and to the east of the hill on which that city stands, 
Kan-Tehar and Kan Eminie were mentioned ; and to the north of the 
Sea of Tiberias I saw Jehel-esheik" 
