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pilgrims, in their journeys to Jerusalem. These 
Hien have generally landed at Jaffa; and have 
returned thither, after completing their pilgrim- 
age*: in consequence of this, we seldom meet 
with any accounts of Galilee, or of Samaria, in 
their writings'. Even Douhdan\ whose work, 
full of the most valuable information, may be 
considered as the foundation of every recent 
description of the Holy Land, contents himself 
with the view afforded of this plain from Mount 
Thabur^'. Not that he has, on this account. 
(5) Of which fact the Reader may find amusing evidence in an 
extract from a MS. Poem of the Cottonian Library. The last line will 
not easily be paralleled. 
"At Port Jaffhegywn wee, 
"And so frothe from gre to gre, 
" At Port JafF ther is a place, 
" Wher Petur reised thrugh Goddes grace, 
" From dede to lif to Tabitanc, 
" He was a woman that was her name." 
See Purchas, lib. viii. c. 15. p. 1238. Lond. 1624. 
-(d) This plan has so constantly been adopted by persons resorting to 
the Holy Land, that in the very recent instance of the visit paid to that 
country by Chdteauhriand, (whose interesting Travels were published 
while this sheet was preparing for the press,) his journey extends only 
from Jaffa to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem back again to Jaffa. (See 
Trav. in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barhary, during the years 
1806 and 1807, hy F. A. Chateaubriand. English edit. Lond. 1811.) 
The French edition could not be had when this volume was printing, 
(j) Mons. Chateaubriand pleasantly styles him " honest Doubdan." 
(Ibid, vol, II. p. 141.) justly extolling, upon other occasions, his per- 
spicuity, accuracy, erudition, and, above all, his simplicity. 
(8) "Or pendant que nous sommes encore sur le faiste dc cette 
saiucte montague, il nous la faut horizonter et jetter la veiie avec 
plaisir 
