2&2 clakke’s Travels. ' % 
the martyr, an extract from whose itinerary is preserved by 
Keland, which speaks of a church erected upon the spot where 
St. Peter’s dwelling once .stood.*' Along the borders of this 
lake may still be seen the remains of those ancient tombs, hewn 
by the earliest inhabitants of Galilee, in the rocks which face 
the water. Similar works were before noticed among the ruins 
of Telmessus. They were deserted in the time of our Saviour, 
and had become the resort of wretched men, afflicted by dis¬ 
eases, and made outcasts of society; for, in the account of the 
cure performed by our Saviour upon a maniac in the country 
of the Gadarenes, these tombs are particularly alluded to; and 
their existence to this day (although they have been neither 
noticed by priests nor pilgrims, and have escaped the ravages 
of the Empress Helena, who would undoubtedly have shaped 
them into churches) offers strong internal evidence of the ac¬ 
curacy of the evangelist who has recorded the transaction: 
44 There met him out of the tombs a man Avith an unclean spirit, 
who had his dwelling among the tombs.” f In all the descent to¬ 
ward Tiberias, the soil is black, and seems to have resulted from 
the decomposition of rocks, which have a volcanic appearance. 
The stony fragments scattered over the surface were amygda- 
loidal and porous ; their cavities being occasionally occupied 
by mesotype, or by plumose carbonate of lime: the former be¬ 
came perfectly gelatinized after immersion in muriatic acid. 
We observed plantations of tobacco then in bloom; of Indian 
corfl ; of millet, which was still green ; of melons, pumpkins, 
and cucumbers. The harvest of wheat and barley ended io 
June; but the oats were still standing. From Hatti to Tibe¬ 
rias is nine miles: tAvo of these consists of the descent from the 
elevated plain toAvard the lake. 
As we entered the gate of the town, the Turkish guards Avere 
playing at chess. We roused them with our salaams , and Avere 
conducted to the residence of the governor. Having made as 
rapid a disposition as possible of our baggage, for the purpose 
of passing the night in a large room of the castle, which re¬ 
minded us of ancient apartments in the old castellate buildings 
remaining in England, Ave hastened toward the lake; every in¬ 
dividual of,our party being eager to bathe his feverish limbs 
in its cool and consecrated waters. 
Proceeding toAvard the shore, avc Avere shown a very ancient 
* “ Deinde venimus in civitatem Capharnaum in domum Petri, quae mode est ba* 
ssSica.” Itin. Antonin..Martyr, Vid WelandiJPalaestina, in Korn. Capernaum. 
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