TIBERIAS TO NAPOLOSE. 261 
Arabs in the service of Djezzar, we took leave chap. 
of the General at three o'clock p. m. and, having " . — -> 
mounted our horses, continued our journey 
across the plain> towards Jennin. A tolerably- 
accurate notion of its extent, in this direction, 
may be obtained from a statement of the time 
we spent in crossing it. We were exactly 
seven hours ^ thus employed; proceeding at 
the rate of three miles in each hour. Its 
breadth, therefore, may be considered as equal 
to twenty-one miles. The people of the 
country told us it was two days' journey in 
length. One hour after leaving the camp, we 
crossed the line of separation between the 
dominions of Djezzar Pasha and those of the 
Pasha of Damascus. This line is nearly in the 
middle of the plain. At six we arrived at 
Jennin \ a small village, where we passed the jcnnin. 
night. The setting sun gave to it a beautiful 
appearance, as we drew nigh to the place. 
Here again we observed, as a fence for gardens, 
(2) It is a curious fact, which may shew how regularly computed 
distances, in this part of Asia, correspond with the time actually 
employed by travellers in passln;j them, that when the author compared 
this note in his Journal wilh the diary of Alaundrell, he found that this 
traveller had performed the same journey precisely in the same 
space of time. He left Jennin at midnight, travelled all night, and 
in seven Jiours reached the opposite side, near Nazareth. Seep. \\C 
Journ. from ^lepp. f^c. Oxf. 1721. 
(3) Written Jenneen by Maimdrcll. Jotirn. from Aleppo, b^c. p. 111. 
