430 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP filing to the right and left, without bidding us 
*' farewell, they galloped off as fast as their 
horses could carry them. 
IX 
Rama. Rama is about thirty miles irom Jerusalem, 
according to Quaresmius^; but Phocas makes 
the distance to be greater ^ The last eight or 
ten miles of our journey was over a more 
pleasing tract of country ; but all the preceding 
afforded the most fatiguing and difficult route^ 
(1) " Via a Ramtl usque ad Jerusalem est triginta circiter millia- 
rium." Elucid. T. S. torn. II. p. 12. 
(2) 'Ato T^f ay'ixs ■jroXtas 'is^oviTaXh/u. uri) fi'iXia. r'. Iffrh ri'Apficc^ft ^riXis, 
tv »i Taf/.)!vviX f/.iya; imTvc; Tpaip'^Tti; yiyiwATat. xai //.it ixiTvav aau ft,lS 
iTipav fiiXiuv iTTa, n xai TXi7ov ^idffrrit^a, Iittiv h 'Tifificiov; tt'oXi; f^riyaXnt 
xoiXuacs [iiirov xiif/,ivjj, Iv •jvipecMiarnKOTi puKtui, ovra; uai) //.iXia, I'lKotri xai 
nirfapa ri rov 'Pa/i'^Xia X'^P"^ v^yitXcotcci, xa,) vao; Tti/^fiiyas ^^ Tavrn oparcu 
rau ayiiu fjnyaXoftiprvfio; VicapyUu. " A sancta civitate Hierusalem, ad sex 
milliaria, Armathem urbs conspicitur, in qua Samuel, maguus ille 
propheta, ortum habuit. Iiide post alia septem et aniplius milliaria, 
Emmaus, urbs ma^na, in medi^ valle, supererainei,ti dorso, jacet. 
Sic ad passuum fere vigiiiti millia, Raniplece (haec est Ramola, sic leg. 
Reland.) regio efFunditur : et templum ingens in eAdem sancti magni 
martyris Georgii visitur." Phoca Descript. Loc. Sunct. apud Leon. 
j4llat. 'Sufiju.. Colon. 1653. 
(3) " It seems never to have been otherwise. There is not even a 
trace of any anticnt paved way, so common even in the remotest pro- 
vinces of the Roman empire. " Excepta planitie Rama," says Qnares- 
tnius, [Eluc. T. S. torn. II. p. 12.) " qua pulchra est, spatma etfecunda, 
octo vel decern miUiarium, tola residua difficUis satis, et fete seinpe7' per 
monies et colles." Yet it appears to be recorded, (l Kings, v. 9. J that 
the stones and timber for building Solomon's Temple were brougiit upon 
rafts, by sea, to the port oi Jaffa, and thence carried by land to 
Jerusalem. See also Quaresm. Eluc, T. S. torn. II. p, 5. Antv- 1639. 
