288 THE HOLY LAND. 
ciiAP. City'. This name of our halting-place is not 
' ,^— > found, however, in any of our Journals. Here, 
upon some pieces of very mouldy biscuit, a few 
raw onions, (the only food we could hnd upon 
the spot,) and the water of the well, we all of us 
fed with the best possible appetite ; and could 
we have procured a little salt, we should have 
deemed our fare delicious. 
At three p. m. we again mounted our hor^s, 
and proceeded on our route. No sensation of 
fatigue or heat could counterbalance the eager- 
ness and zeal which animated all our party, in 
the approach to Jerusalem ; every individual 
pressed forward, hoping first to announce the 
joyful intelligence of its appearance. We passed 
some insignificant ruins, either of antient build- 
ings or of modern villages ; but had they been 
of more importance, they would have excited 
little notice at the time, so earnestly bent was 
every mind towards the main object of interest 
and curiosity. At length, after about two hours 
had been passed in this state of anxiety and 
suspense, ascending a hill towards the south — 
(l) " Leaving Beer, &.c. iit two hours and one thiril, we came to the 
top of a hill ; from whence we had the first prospect oi Je7-usatem. In 
one hour more, we approached the walls of the Holy City." Journ. 
from Alep.to Jems. p. QS- O.vf. 1721. 
