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clarke’s travels. 
sat smoking with us at the well. They make do secret of 
their mode of life, but seemed rather vain of it. Had but a 
few of their friends upon the hills descended to their aid, they 
would have stripped us of every thing we had, even of our 
clothes. Their chief advanced to kiss the hand of the cap¬ 
tain of our guard, expressing his reverence for Djezzar Pacha, 
and making him as much compliment and ceremony as if they 
had been hU slaves. Tins officer told us, that their servile 
behaviour when their force is inferior, is as much their cha¬ 
racteristic, as their ferocity when in power. We bargained with - 
this chief to accompany us to Bethoor, in order to recover our 
camels and baggage ; to which, after a short parley, he con¬ 
sented ; and, having dismissed his attendants, accompanied us 
from the well, riding in the van of our cavalcade, armed with 
a long lance, such as the Cossacks of Tartary always carry oli 
horseback. In this manner we reached Bethoor late in the 
evening. Concerning this place, not a syllable of information 
occurs, either in the accounts given by travellers who have 
visited the Holy Land, or of authors who have written for its 
illustration. This is the more remarkable, as it occurs in the 
high way from Jaffa to Jerusalem. Yet such was the situa¬ 
tion of BEQiiPaN mentioned by Josephus,* and written also 
EAieapaN. Hence it really seems as if the accident which 
had compelled our visit to a place we should otherwise have 
disregarded, has also enabled us to ascertain the disputed si¬ 
tuation of Be therm, written Bethchoron by Reland/.f for, after 
the most diligent examination of the authorities urged in fix¬ 
ing the position of this place, they all seern to bear directly to¬ 
ward Bethoor, and particularly lire relative position of places 
w ithwhich Bethorou is named by ancient w riters. St. Jerom, 
speaking of Rama and Bethorpn, says that these, (which, it is 
to be observed, he seems to associate, as if they were not re¬ 
mote irom each other,) together with other noble cities built 
by Solomon, are now only known by poor villages, preserving 
iu their names a memorial of what they once were. This at 
least may be inferred from his words.:}; And Rama, as it will 
The distance of Bethoor from Jerusalem also agrees with the account given by 
JPsephus of Bethorpn, as it is stated by Reland. “ Quanto inUrvallo BcuOwpcb ab- 
fuerit I{icrosolpnis-cotHgitut cx lib. 2. de Bell. cap. 2. vbi supeUex Caesaris dicitw illic 
ftsc direpta , Si confer as cum. lib. 20. Antiqv.it. 4. ubi idem narralur et id factum 
esse IcgU-ur ccnf simo ab vrbe Hiprosblffmiiand siadio nark inv $i)jjLoir(ctv o$dv in via 
pub!tea Falsest. Illust. torn. II. p. 634. 
f Reland. Falsest. Illust .tom. II. p. 633. 
t “ Rama et Bet boron et reliquae woes 'nobile a Salomon® constriictae parvi viculi 
demonstrator. Micron, in Commertiario ad Sophwiam, cap. l. 
