PREFACE. 
&i 
stating the several causes of that heretical kind of pilgri¬ 
mage in the Holy Land, which he describes(x) as 
"prophane, vicious and detestable ” certainly enumerates 
many of the motives which induced the author to visit 
that country, and therefore classes him among the 
&i Nonnullos Nebulones occidentales Haereticos,” whose 
remarks he had heard with so much indignation*^) But 
in doing this he places him in company which he is proud 
to keep—among men who do not believe thetnselves one 
jot nearer to salvation by their approximation to Mount 
Calvary, nor by all the indulgences, beads, rosaries, and 
crucifixes, manufactured and sold by the jobbers of Jeru¬ 
salem—among men, who, in an age when feelings and 
opinions upon such subjects were manifestly different 
from those now maintained, with great humbleness of spirit 
and matchless simplicity of language, “ expected remis¬ 
sion of sin, no other ways, but only in the name, and for 
the merits of our Lord Jesus Christwho undertook 
their pilgrimage, “ not to get any thing by it as by a good 
work ; nor to visit stone and wood to obtain indulgence ; 
nor with opinion to come nearer to Christ,” by visiting 
Jerusalem, “ because all these things are directly contrary 
to Scripture ;” but to “ increase the general stock of use¬ 
ful knowledge,” to “ afford the reader both profit and plea* 
sure; that those who have no opportunity to visit foreign 
countries, may have them before their eyes, as in a map, 
to contemplate; that others may be excited further to in¬ 
quire into these things, and induced to travel themselves 
into those parts that they may be “ instructed in the 
customs, laws, and orders of men,” that the a present 
state, condition, situation and manners of the world, may 
concerning the Holy Land, have not perhaps remarked the extent of the confusion 
prevailing in the topographical descriptions of Jerusalem .* probably, because they have 
not compared those writings with any general plan of the city. To give a single exam¬ 
ple ; almost every traveller, from the time of Brocardus to that of Moms. De Chateaubri¬ 
and, mentions the 44 Mountain of Offence,” where Solomon sacrificed testraDge gods. Ac¬ 
cording to Broeardus and to Adriehomius, this mountain is the northern point of the 
Mount of Olives, (vid. Brocard. Itin. 6- Adricom. Theat. Terr. Sand. p. 171. Colon. 
1628.) and therefore to the east or northeast of Jerusalem. Maundreli, (p. 102. Journ. 
from Alep, to Jems. Oxf. 1721,) and alsoPococke, ( Descrip. of the East , plan facing p. 
1. wol. i/. Lond. 1745.) make it the southern point. Sandys (Trav. p. 186. Lend. 1637.] 
places this mountain to the southwest of the city. 
(x) Quaresmius, “ De externa prof ana, sed detestabili ac vitiosft PercgrinationeS* 
Vid. Elucidatio Terrae Sanetae, lib, iii c. 34. Antv. 1639. 
($) Ibid. lib. v. cat>, 14. 
