TIBERIAS TO NAPOLOSE. 23.J 
Appellations — C/rcuvistances connected witk its antient 
History — Tomb of Joseph — Tomb of Joshua — Nature 
of those Relics — Samaritans — Jacob's Well. 
W E were on horseback by six o'clock on 
Monday morning, July the sixth, notwith- 
standing our excursion, and continued our 
route. Leaving Tiberias, we took a different Departure 
road from that by which we came, and crossed rUii 
an extensive valley, hoping to visit Mount 
Thahur. In this valley, three hundred French 
cavalry defeated an army of ten thousand Turks ; 
an event so astonishing, even to the Turks them- 
selves, that they considered the victory as 
obtained by magic ; an art which they believe 
many of the Franks to possess. 
All the pleasure of travelling, at this season Efiict of 
- . . Climate. 
01 the year, m the Holj/ Land, is done away by 
the excessive heat of the sun. A traveller, 
wearied and spiritless, is often more subdued 
at the beginning than at the end of his day's 
journey. Many rare plants and curious minerals 
invite his notice, as he passes slowly along, 
with depressed looks fixed upon the ground ; 
but these it is impossible for him to obtain. It 
appears to him to be an act of unjustiliable 
cruelty to ask a servant, or even one of the 
