BETHLEHEM TO JAFFA. 42^ 
of Tahtary always carry on horseback. In this chap. 
manner we reached Betlwor X-dX^ in the evenino-. ' . ' 
Concerning this place, not a syllable of infor- '^"^'""■• 
mation occurs, either in the accounts given by 
travellers who have visited the Holy Land, or of 
authors who have written for its illustration. 
This is the more remarkable, as it occurs in the 
high way from Jaffa to Jerusalem. Yet such 
was the situation of BEenpoN mentioned by 
JosephiLs\ and written also baighphn. Hence it 
really seems as if the accident which had com- 
pelled our visit to a place we should other\vise 
have disregarded, has also enabled us to ascer- 
tain the disputed situation of Bethoron, written 
Bethchoron by Reland^ : for, after the most 
diligent examination of the authorities necessary 
to fix the position of this place, they all seem 
to bear directly upon Bethoor ; especially the 
relative position of places with which Bethoron 
is named by antient writers. St.Jerom, speaking 
of Rama and Bethoron, (which, it is to be 
(1) The di'tauce of Bethoor from Jerttsalem. also agrees with the 
account g'\v en hy Josephus oi Bethoron, as it is stated by Relanu. 
" Quanto interva/lo iaiiufu abfuerit Hierosolymis colligitur ex lib. 2. de 
Bell, cap. 2. uli supellex Cctsaiis dicitur ilUcesse diiepta, si confer as cum 
lib. 20, Jntiquit. 4. ubi idem narratur, et id factum esse legitur cen- 
tesimo ah urbe Hierosolymitand stadia xara rhi Infmirlav o'S«v in via pub- 
lied." Palast. Illicst. torn. II. p. 634. Utrecht, 1714. 
(2) Reland. Palast. lllttst. torn. II. p. 6*3. 
