JERUSALEM. 3^3 
Jericho, watered by the Jordan, whose course chap, 
may be distinctly discerned. For the rest, , 
nothing appears in the surrounding country 
but hills, whose undulating surfaces resemble 
the waves of a perturbed sea. They seemed 
to be bleak, and destitute of any marks of cul- 
tivation ; but their real state cannot be ascer- 
tained by a distant view : we often observed 
that mountains, which, when remote, appeared 
like uncultivated and barren rocks, were, when 
we drew near to them, covered with little ter- 
races, like a series of steps, and abundantly 
fertile. At a short distance from the summit, Miracuiou'; 
I . , • ^ c • Impression 
we were desired to notice the lamous impres- of our 
sion of a man's left foot' in the rock, which has foou" ^ 
so long been shewn as that made by our 
Saviour at liis ascension^. Over this, Helena 
(2) Mons. De Oidleaubriand (Trav. vol.U. p. 49- Lond.l2]l.) 
says, it is an impression of our Saviour's le/'t foot, but that the mark of 
the rigfit was once visible. Bernard de Breidenhach saw the impres- 
sion of the right foot in 1483. "■ — et prisertim pedis dextri." 
Vid. Peregrinatio Sacra, Spir. 1490. 
(3) The account of which is thus given by Adriehomius — Credat 
JCDJEUS Apella, non EGO ! " Atque ex kujus summitate cm-am astanti- 
bus et intuenlibus discijnilis, data eis benedictione, in caelum ascendit, facie 
{ut etiam ex ullimis pedum ejus vestigiis ad tanta rei memoriam petroso 
monti, instar cercB, impressis, etiamnum evidenter colligitur') ad occidentem 
versus Catholicam ex gentibus Romanam spectans Ecclesiam, ad quam 
ipse ejus caput, tanquam getninos et illustres oculos D. Petru7H suum in 
ferrh vicarium Pastorem ac apostolorum coriphaum, et D. Paulum gen- 
tium doctorem, missurus erat." Adrichomii Theatrwn Terr. Sanct. 
p. 170. Colon. 1628. 
