. CLARKl’s mAV$L$. 
is more explicit thae the earlier Christian pilgrims, concern* 
Ing this place: but he was principally occupied in discussions 
with a 1 Samaritan priest, concerning the difference between 
their text and the Hebrew, and in identifying the two moun- 
imn$; lihal and Germm y between which the city stands. He 
notices, however, the tomb of Joseph ; still bearing its name, 
unaltered, and venerated even by the Moslems, who have 
built a small temple over it* Its authenticity is i^ot liable to 
controversy: since tradition is, in this respect, maintained up¬ 
on the authority of sacred scripture: and the veneration paid 
to it by Jews, by Christians, and by Mahometans, has pre¬ 
served, in ail ages, the remembrance of its situation^ Having 
shown, upon a former occasion, that tombs were the origin Of 
temples it is not necessary to dwell upon the utter improba¬ 
bility of tlieir being forgotten among men who approached 
them as places of worship. The tomb of Joshua was also vi¬ 
sited by Jewish pilgrims in the twelfth century. This is 
proved by the Hebrevv Itinerary of Petachias,5 who was con¬ 
temporary with Benjamin of Tudela ;|| and its situation, 
marked byriiim with'the utmost precision,** is still as familiar 
to the Jews of Patestine as the place where the temple of 
Solomon originally stood. It was, in fact, in the midst of a 
renowned ‘cemetery, containing also the sepulchres of other 
patriarchs; particularly of one, whose synagogue is mention¬ 
ed by Benjamin of Tudela, as being in the neighbourhood of 
the warm baths of Tiberias.ft These toifrhs are hewn in the 
solid rock, like those of Telmessus in the G'ulph of Glaueiis, 
and are calculated for duration, equal to that of the hills 
wherein they have been excavated. It may a!s6 be worthy 
of notice, that, when w riters of the age of Benjamin and Pe- 
% u We saw ort our right hand, just without the city, a small mosque, said to have 
been built over the sepulchre purchased by Jaeob of Em.mor the father of Shechem. 
[Gen, 33 19.) It goes by the name of Joseph’s sepulchre, his bones having been here 
interred, afjter thejr transportation outof Egypt. {Josh. £4.32.)” Jour.n from Aleppo, 
to Jerus. jj. 62. Oxf. 1721. 
f “ tti Sichem verb relata fuerunt ossa Joseph ex. jEgypto.” EvgesippvP. iib 
L. AIM. Col. 1653. 
1 &ee Part I. of these Travels, c. xvil 
| Petachiea Itirierariura. Vid. Thes. Antiq. Sacr. tom. VI. Vttid. 1746. 
jj “ 3)Jori licet. R. Petacbiam Seculo xii.statuere antiquiorem, sed illud petius con- 
senttituf, R. Benjamjneni, et R Petachiam fuisse eoaevos,” hrtrod. in Ptach. Hip. 
ab. J. Christ6p)i. fVagenscilio. Ibid. 1161, 11621 
tL Mops. Gaasch.valde excelsus esp atqu'fc in co concitusrObadias Propheta. tfl 
hunc roohtehJ praeltuhi, per gradus fit ascensus, qul, ibi. incisi sunt, atque in medio 
montis sepultus est Josuafilius Num^et, juxtaeum, Caleb Jephunne iliius. Prope 
HORTJJW MONUMENT A FOS SCATURIT,, E OtJO AQ.UA OPTIMA PER MONTF.M MANAT, TP-. 
sisauE sepulchris, basiUo^e eorec'^ ' AvmtPKTtiiJ* Pdachiae Itwr, Ibid, 
1205, 1206. 
tf Benjam inis Itinerarium* cap, 10. HelmL 
