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clarke’s travels. 
Acre by the different travellers who have visited this part of 
jpalaestine, or have alluded to it in their writings. 4 Of those 
published in our language, MauudrelPs and Pococke’s are the 
best.f The former of these respectable authors was, probably, 
BO stranger to the work I have cited, if lie did not borrow his 
own description of the antiquities of Acre from the account 
there given.J Both of these writers consider the building, 
commonly called King Richard’s Palace, as the Church of St. 
Andrew. Perhaps it was that of St. John the Baptist, erected 
by the Knights of Jerusalem, whence the city changed its 
name of Ptclemais for that of St John d"Acre .§ Lusignan, 
author of the History of the Revolt of All Bey,|| speaks of 
parts of the ancient city, as built by the Knights of St. John.* 4 
The strange ornament of a human head with distorted features, 
as represented in the cornice of the building, seems rather to 
confirm this opinion; since it is after a similar manner that we 
see the head of St. John barbarously delineated in those rude 
paintings used as idols in the Greek church. Doubdan des¬ 
cribes this biiildingff as exhibiting traces of a style of architec¬ 
ture which we may perhaps consider, in some degree, the origi¬ 
nal of our ornamented Gothic, before its translation from the 
Holy Land to Italy, to France, and to England. A similar 
circumstance has been already noticed in the account of the 
Isle of Cyprus ; and there are others in different parts of Pa¬ 
lestine. The rest of the ruins in Acre are those of the Arse- 
See, for example, the works of Lithgow, Safldys, Egmont and Keymab, Paul 
Lucas, Shay, Baron de Tott, Perry, &c. Among the accounts given of Acre by these 
writers, that of Paul Lucas is truly ludicrous. Arriving there, he p?*oceeds to describe 
the city: and excites our expectation by this margin'al note, “ Description de cdie 
ville” When the reader seeks the promised information, he finds only these words, 
U S. Jean d'Acre est aujourd'hui assez peuple See Voy. de Sieur P. Lucas, liv. iil. 
tom. i p. 370 Amst 1744. 
| Journ. from Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 52. Oxford, 1721. 
t Doubdan performed his journey in 1652, and published the account of it at Paris, 
in quarto, A. D. 1657. Maundrell’s journey took place at Easter, 1697; and his work 
appeared at Oxford, in 1703. It is from the similarity of the following passages that 
the author has ventured a remark concerning their common origin. They are both 
describing the ruins of Acre. “ Les ruines de la ville sont Ires grandss, les premiers 
dcsquelles sont celles de PEgiise de Saint Andre, qui est sur une eminence proche de la 
mer'.P The same subject is thus introduced by Maundrell: “ Within the walls there 
still appear several ruins ..... as first, those of the cathedral church, dedicated to 
Ht. Andrew, which stands not far from the sea-side, more high and conspicuous than 
the other ruins.” 
§ The Greek name of tins place, according to Strabo, (p. 1077. ed. Oxon.) was Ace. 
Its Hebrew appellation was Accho. (See Judges, i. 131 ) St. Jerom says, that it had 
more anciently the name of Colk ; (see also Adrichomii Theat. Terras Sanctse, p. 6.) 
a singular circumstance, considering that the Goths, or Getm, .previous to their passage 
of the Hellespont, were, from this country. Being augmented by Ptolemy the First, 
.&ce was {Pom him called Ptolemats. 
'i 1 The second edition was. printed in London in.1781. I have not seen the^cr-vf. 
Revolt of Ali Bey, p. 177. 
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