238 clarke's travels. 
not Buonaparte will make a breach there again. A breach is 
a breach, and a wall is a wall!” 
The bath of Acre is the finest and best built of any that we 
saw in the Turkish empire. We alb bathed here, during our 
stay. Every kind of antique marble, together with large pillars 
of Egyptian granite, might be observed among the materials of 
its construction. A great quantity of cotton is exported from 
this place. The country abounds in cattle, corn, olives, and 
linseed. In almost every town of Syria there is a fabric for 
the manufacture of soap; but every thing depends upon the 
will of the pacha : the produce of the land was exported, or 
Dot, as it pleased Djezzar, who cared very little for consequent | 
ees. His avarice, it is true, prompted him to increase the in¬ 
come of his custom houses, but his ignorance, as it was observed 
of him by Baron de Tott,* prevented his discovering, that 
“speculations of revenue, when they strike at industry, can¬ 
not, for that reason, ever be calculated on any principles of 
commerce/* 
CHAP. XIIL 
THE HOLY LAND—ACRE TO NAZARETH. 
Commencement of the Author's Journey in the Holy Land- 
Camp of Djezzar Pacha's Cavalry—Cavalcade for the Ex¬ 
pedition—Syrian Tents—River Belus—Plants —S hef ha¬ 
zier —Reception by the Agha—Grave of an Egyptian form 
-—Plain ofZabulon —Sappkura, or Sepphoris —Medals— 
Druses—Stale of Christianity in the Holy Land—Church 
of St. Joachim and St. Anne—Gothic Remains—Discove¬ 
ry of Ancient Pictures—Their probable Age—Country be¬ 
tween Sephoury and Nazareth—Dress of the Arabs—Alarm 
of the Plague —Nazareth —Condition of the Inhabitants— 
Fountain of the Virgin—Custom illustrating a saying of our 
Saviour—Franciscan Convent—Pretended Miracle — Super¬ 
stitions of the Country—Empress Helena—Other Objects of 
Reverence in Nazareth— Mensa Christi— Environs of the 
Town—Ordinary Penance of Travellers in the Holy Land. 
Upon the third of July, we began our journey to Jerusalem; 
intending first to visit all those places in Galilee rendered re- 
Memoirs; vol, ii. p. 326. ed-. Lon.JL 1785* 
