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endured,” aud 44 so salt, as to communicate a brackish taste to 
that of the lake near it,” Yolney says** that, “ for want of 
cleaning, it is filled with a black rmid, which is a genuine /Ethi- 
ops Martial;” that 44 persons attacked by rheumatic complaints, 
find great relief, and are frequently cured by baths of this 
mud.” 
These observations have been introduced, because we were 
unable ourselves to visit the place'; and were compelled to 
rest satisfied with a distant view of the building which covers 
a spring renowned, during many ages, for its medical proper¬ 
ties. In the space between Tiberias and Emmaus, Eg moot 
and Heyman noticed remains of walls, and othbr ruins, which 
are described as foundations of the old city.f This is said, by 
Fococke,J to have extended about half a mile farther to the 
south than llie present inclosure of its walls. 
Ad richom ius,5 considering Tiberias as the Cinneroth of the 
Hebrews, says, that this city was captured by Benhadad king 
of Syria ;jj and, in after ages, restored by Herod, who sur¬ 
rounded it with walls, and adorned it with magnificent buildings* 
But Cinneroth , or, as it is otherwise written, Kinncreth , was a 
city of NaphtaJb and not of ZabuJon.** The old Hebrew city, 
whatever was its name, probably owed its birth to the re- 
sown of its medicinal baths. Some of the most ancient temples 
iu the world, together with the cities to which they belonged, 
* Travels in Egypt and Syria, vol. ii. p. 230. Lond. 1787. 
f Egmontami Heyman, vol. II. p. 33. 
\ Description of the East , vol. II. part 1. p. 68. Pococke says* that they 
were digging for stones to lniild the castle, upon the north side of the town, the‘y 
found a great number of sepulchres, wherein it was stated the Jews had been buried 
eight hundred years before. He saw a stone coffin (p 69.) adorned with reliefs, exhi¬ 
biting a bull’s head within a crown of flowers, and “ a festoon sicpported by a'spread 
eagle.” The city has never been inhabited by any people unto whom this religion can 
be ascribed, except its Jewish owners. The fact therefore affords curious proof of 
tbe^antiquity of a very popular symbol in heraldry. 
5 Adrichomii Theat. Terr. Sanct. in zMflon. Vid. p. 143. Colon. 1628. 
|| 1 Kings, xv. 20. * At the precise moment when this note is introduced, the ir¬ 
ruption of the Wahabee Arabs into the neighbourhood of Damascus has made the 
eastern district of Syria a scene of transactions resembling the state of the country 
nine hundred and fifty-one years before the Christian sera. Ibn Saoud, the Wahabee 
chief, remained only two days and a half in the Hauran; overrun, in that time, a 
space of "at. least 140 miles; plundered and ransacked about thirty villages ; and 
returned, flying into the heart of his desert dominions. These particulars are com-, 
inunicated to the author in a letter (dated Aleppo, May 3, loll) from his friend 
Burkhardt, now travelling under the auspices of the. African Society. - They afford 
s striking parallel with the “ Acts of Asa, and all his might, and ali that he did,” who, 
in his war with Baasha, sent Ben-hadad of Damascus “ against the cities of Israel, 
and smote I,ion, and Dan, and Abei-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land 
of Naphtali.” 
Reland, Falsest-. Illust. tom. II. lib. iii. p. 1036. D’Anville, however, reconciles 
this position of Kinnereth, which he writes Cinertlh, by extending the boundaries of 
It'aphtall to the southern extremity of the Lake Gennesgreth. 
