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down to Breidenbach and Quaresmius. We chap. 
should no more think of enumerating all the 
absurdities to which the Franciscan friars direct 
the attention of travellers, than of copying, like 
another Cotovic^, the whole of the hymns sung 
by the pilgrims at every station. Possessing 
as much enthusiasm as might be necessary in 
travellers viewing this consecrated land, we 
still retained the power of our understandings 
sufficiently to admire the credulity for which no 
degree of preposterousness seemed too mighty ; 
which converted even the Parables of our 
Saviour into existing realities; exhibiting, as 
holy relics, the house of Dhes\ and the 
dwelling-place of the good Samaritan. There is 
much to be seen at Jerusalem, independently of 
its monks and monasteries ; much to repay 
pilgrims of a very different description from 
those who usually resort thither, for all the 
fatigue and danger they must encounter. But, 
to men interested in tracing, within the walls, 
antiquities referred to by the documents of 
Sacred History, no spectacle can be more mor- 
tifying than the city in its present state. The 
mistaken piety of the early Christians, in 
(3) See De Ckdicuubr land's Travels, vol. II. p. 3. Note (2). Lond. 
1811. 
(4) See the Pre/ace to Part II, 
