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to hesitate whether we should proceed or chap. 
return. At this moment the author observed v- y. > 
the remains of bodies in the sand ; and Captain 
Cidverhouse, being in doubt whether they 
belonged to human bodies or to those of cattle, 
removed a part of the sand with his sword, and 
uncovered part of a hand and arm. Upon this, 
caUing- to our friends, we told them what we 
had discovered; and returning to theConsufs 
house, asked him the cause of the revolting 
spectacle we had witnessed. He told us, that 
these were the remains of bodies carried thither, 
during the late plague, for interment; but that 
the sea, frequently removing the sand which 
covered them, caused them to be thus exposed; 
and he cautioned us against walking in future 
that way, as the infection might possibly be 
retained, not only by those bodies, but by the 
clothes, and other things, there deposited. 
Joppa, called also Japha, and now universally Amient 
Jaffa, owes all the circumstances of its celebrity, jafl!''' ° 
as the principal port of Judaea, to its situation 
with regard to Jerusalem. As a station for ves- 
sels, its harbour is one of the worst in the 
Mediterranean. Ships generally anchor about 
a mile from the town, to avoid the shoals and 
