NAPOLOSE TO JERUSALEM. 28/ 
of Scripture : also, about six hours' distance from chap. 
^ VII. 
Napolose, in a narrow valley, between two high ^ ^ ^. 
rocky hills ", the ruins of a village, and of a 
monastery, situate where the Bethel of Jacob is Bcthd. 
supposed to have been*^. The nature of the soil 
is an existing comment upon the record of the 
stony territory, where " he took of the stones of th-G 
place, and put them for his pilloics." At two 
o'clock p. M. we halted for a little repose, near a 
well, beneath the shade of a ruined building. 
This place was said to be three hours' distance 
from Jerusalem. It is perhaps the same de- 
scribed by Maundrell, under the name of Beer^; B.cr. 
so called, says he, from its fountain of icater, 
and supposed to be the Michmnsh of sacred. 
Scripture '°. It is described by him as distant 
^hree hours and twenty minutes from the Holy 
(7) See p. Gi, Journ. from Aleppo, &c. 
(8) Gen.yiwVn. 19. 
(9) "At the bottom of the hill it has a plentiful fountain of excel- 
lent water, from which it has its name. At its upper side are remains 
of an old church, built by the Empress Helena, iu memory of the 
blessed J'irgin, who, wlien she was in quest of the child Jesu?, as it is 
related (Z,i<Ai(,' ii. 24.), came (as tradition adds) to this city." Journ. 
from Alep. to Jervs. p. 64. Oxf. 1721. 
(10) 1 Sam. xiii. 16,23, xiv. 5. This position of 3Jichr)iash by Maun- 
drell by no means agrees with the situation assigned to it by Rihind 
(PaltFSt. lllust. torn. l\. p. 897. Truj. Bat. 1714.) upon the authority of 
EusEBius : ^' Est vicus grandis 9 ?«?/. ftfc ..£/<</ (Hierosolyma) prop> 
Rama, teste Euselio." 
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