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here a noble view of the place, with its castle chap. 
and fortifications. Groupes of ^rabs, gathering 
their harvest upon the backs of camels, were 
seen in the neighbourhood of the town. Beyond 
it, appeared, upon the same side of the lake, 
some buildings erected over the warm mineral 
Baths of Emmaus, which are much frequented 
by the people of the country ; and, still farther, 
the south-eastern extremity of the lake. Turning 
our view towards its northern shores, we beheld, 
through a bold declivity, the situation of 
Capernaum, upon the boundaries of the two tribes 
of Zahulon and Naphtali. It was visited in the 
sixtli century by Antoninus the Martyr, an 
extract from whose Itinerary is preserved by 
Reland, which speaks of a church erected upon 
the spot where St. Peters dwelling once stood'. 
Along the borders of this lake may still be seen 
the remains of those antient tombs, hewn by the 
earliest inhabitants of Galilee, in the rocks 
which face the water. Similar works were 
before noticed amono- the Ruins of Telmessus. 
They were empty in the time of our Savlour, 
and had become the resort of wretched men. 
(l) " Deinde venimus in civitatem Capharnaum in domuni Petri, 
rjuae niodo est basilica." Jl'm. /Intnnin. Martijr. Vid. Rtkindi Pala- 
stina, in Nom. Capernaum. 
