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THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP. 
V. 
Adria- 
NEUJr. 
temple, called the AdrianeumS consisting of 
stones six feet square ^ which the inhabitants 
of Tiberias wished to convert into a public bath. 
This he immediately appropriated to the erec- 
tion of a new sanctuary; and in the present 
bailding similar remains may be observed. 
Whatever may be the date of it, we may 
regret that, in the numerous publications which 
have appeared respecting the Holy Land, no 
accurate delineation of these curious specimens 
of vaulted architecture has yet been afforded by 
artists duly qualified for their representation. 
Descrip- 
tion of the 
Town. 
The town of Tiberias is situate close to the 
edge of the lake. It is fortified by walls, but 
it has no artillery ; and like all Turkish citadels, 
it makes a great figure from without, exhibiting 
at the same tmie the utmost wretchedness 
within. Its castle stands upon a rising ground 
in the north part of it. No antiquities now 
remain, except the building just described, and 
the celebrated hot baths af Emmaus\ about a 
(1) 'A^^tciviiov. Temples without images were called Adrianea, 
from Adrian, by vvhum they were introduced. 
(2) That is to say, of four cubits square ; reckoning each cubit at 
eighteen inches. 
(3) Emmaus, or Ainmaus, signifies baths. {Vid. Joseph, lib. iv. 
de Bell. Jud. c.\.) The Hebrew appellation is nDH Chammath 
{Reland. Pal^rst. lllust. torn. I. lib. \. p. 302.) The Baths o^ Tiberias 
are 
