if ROM NAZARETH TO TIBERIAS, 27 i 
ed into the chapel, in order to see thereliques and sacred vest- 
ments there preserved. When the poor priest exhibited these, 
be wept over them with so much sincerity, and lamented the 
indignities to which the holy places were exposed in terms so 
affecting, that all our pilgrims wept also. Such were the tears 
which formerly excited the sympathy, and roused the valour of 
the Crusaders. The sailors of our party caught the kindling 
zeal; and little more was necessary to incite in them a hostile 
disposition toward every Saracen they might afterward en¬ 
counter. The mins of a church are shown in this place, 
which is said to have been erected over the spot where the 
marriage feast of Cana was held.* * * § It is worthy of note, that, 
walking among these ruins, we saw large massy stone water 
pots, answering the description given of the ancient vessels of 
the country ;! not preserved, nor exhibited, as reliques, but ly¬ 
ing about, disregarded by the present inhabitants, as antiqui¬ 
ties with whose original use they were unacquainted. From 
their appearance, and the number of them, it was quite evident 
that a practice of keeping water in large stone pots, each hold¬ 
ing from eighteen to twenty-seven gallons^ was once common in 
the country. 
About three miles beyond Cana, we passed the village of 
Turun: near this place they pretend to show the field where 
the disciples of Jesus Christ plucked the ears of corn upon the 
Sabbath day4 The Italian Catholics have named it the field 
46 des;li Setti Spmi” and gather the bearded wheat, w hich is 
annually growing there, as a part of the collection of reliques 
w herewith they return burtheued to their own country. The 
heat of this day was greater than any to which we had yet been 
exposed in the Levant; nor did we afterward experience any- 
thiogso powerful. Captain Culverhouse had the misfortune 
to break his umbrella; a frivolous event in milder latitudes, 
but here of so much importance, that all hopes of continuing 
our journey depended upon its being repaired. Fortunately, 
beneath some rocks, over which we were then passing, there 
were caverns,? excavated by primeval shepherds, as a shelter, 
from scorching beams, capable of baking bread, and actually 
* “ Nicephorus gives an account of it, and says it was built by St. Helen.” Mariti’s 
Trav. vol. ii. p. 171. Lond. 1791. 
t “ And there were set there six water-pots of stone, after the manner of the puri¬ 
fying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece.” John, ii 6. 
t Luke, vi. 1. Matt, xii. 1. Mark, ii. 23- 
§ Small reservoirs for containing water, of great antiquity; some jjj the form Of 
Basons, appeared in these caverns, 
