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close bis eyes. Every instant it was necessary to rise, and 
.endeavour to shake off the noxious animals with which our 
bodies were covered. In addition to this penance, we were 
serenaded, until four o’clock in the morning, the hour we bad 
fixed for our departure, by the constant ringing of a chapel 
belt as a charm against the plague; by the barking of dogs; 
braying of asses; howling of jackals: and by the squalling of 
children,, 
CHAPTER XIV-.' 
THE HOLY LAND.—NAZARETH TO TIBERIAS,- 
The Author leaves Nazareth, to visit Galilee—Rani—Cana— 
Chapel of the Village—Reliques — Turan—Caverns—In¬ 
tense Heat—Basaltic Phenomena—their Origin explained— 
Plants—Geological Features of Galilee—View from ih$ 
K er n - e MI a 11 1 —~Li bonus -— Village of Haiti — Druses ■— An¬ 
telopes—Sea of Galilee ^ or Hake Gennesareth— Tiberias — 
Baths of' Emmans—Capernaum—Soil and Produce-—Castle 
—House of Peter— Adrianseum —Description of Til anas— 
Antiquities—Minerals of the Lake—Non descript Shells— 
River Jordan—Hippos-—Dimensions of the Sed of Galilee- 
Singular Fishes—Ancient JVaval Engagement—Slaughter ' 
of ike Jews—Supposed Miracle caused by the French—Popu¬ 
lation of Tiberias* 
After a sleepless night, rising more fatigued than when we 
retired to rest, and deeming a toilsome journey preferable to 
the suffering state we had all endured, v/e left Nazareth at five 
o’clock on Sunday morning, July the sixth. Instead of pro¬ 
ceeding to Jerusalem, (our intention being to complete the tour 
of Galilee, and to visit the lake of Gennesareth,) we returned 
by the way we came, until we had quitted the? valley, and as¬ 
cended the hills to the north of the town* We then desceuded 9 
|n the same northerly direction, or rather northeast, into some 
line valleys, more cultivated than any land we had yet seen io 
this country, surrounded by hills of limestone, destitute of 
trees. After thus riding for au hour, we passed the village of 
