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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[June, 1907.
The Citty Safhet Saphet is seene from Tyberious, it being On a hill shewes it selfe verry pls (plain] tho 20 Miles of the Hill vnder weh is Damaskus is also plainly seene from thence, tho it be ostecmed 50 Engl miles or 2 days iurney.
In ye Citty Tyberious, woh is 3 parts incompost [encompassed] wth a wall sleight but shows new,95 ye 4th w tl ye sea, in all its compass about an Engl Mile And hath Only One litle gate in wch ya enter. In this Citty is a Church cald ye Church of St Peeter, some part standing as of Oldes, But ysed Only for Catle to shelter themselues from yo Sann in the heate of the day.. In this Citty is of all Ages & Sexes about yo nomber of 50 psons but not & howse wthin yo walls of ye Citty, Only rains in yo walls of ch they live & dwell. The people speak Arrabb, theire habbit wild & poore like yo Contrey about them, web affords noething worth mentioninge, not gt the soyle is not good, but the people Idle. We had for of food while we staid a night & a day, Milk, Cake & Honney.
In former tymo, 25 years sinco, was a boate on yo Sea of Tyberious, woh belonged to some Jewes ith previlidge to fish, paying 50 Dollers yearly to y Bashaw of Safhett, wth boate tooke fish & furnished all yo Contrey round about; but the Bashaw raised it to 200 Dollss, yo boate was taken away & it never fished in since to this day. We see abondance of fish play neare yo sbore, for some part of yo ruins of a great howse runs into yo water 20 yds.
A quarter of a Mile wthout ye now wall of Tyberious is a natural hot bath, 80e hot I could not goe into it till modderated wth Cold water ; ® its wthin a stones cast of ye Sea of Tyberious, vnder a great hill, & It seemes as if the Old Citty wall had Compast it, by yo ruins of many buildings & an old wall rang beyond it.
24 July 1669. Wee parted from the Citty Tyberious to Nazereth. In ye way wee vewed two Caines [Khāns) or Castles, places in that rude contrey for Marchts, to lodge themselfs, Goods & Cammells in safe from Robbers. The farer is cald Inocth Nu tow Jar [Al-lukandatu't-tujjar), this is wthin a day3 Jurney of the place wheere Josephs Bretheron sold him to ye Ishmalites. This Caine hath its naime from a fountaine was wheere it stands.
A mile beyond this, at y foote of Mount Taber, we kild a yong boar, & rosted it and & eat it On y top of Mount Taber. On y verry top of this Mount is yo ruins of 3 Churches, in One of wch are seene yo 8 tabernackles Queene Hellen built in memory of or saviors transfiguration. Ffrom the top of this Moant woli is two miles high, in of assent we se, Ist Ender, wheere K. Saull wont to'y witch; 2nd, the plaines of Jezraell; 3rd, Mount hermon ; 4, the place wheere yo wid dowes son was carried to buriall [Nain) & raised to life; 51y Mount Gilboa ; 6, the sea of Jordan; 7, the sea of Gallile ; Anil at y bottom of this hill is ye plaine whoere Cisnera was discomfeted [the plain of Esdraelon) & yo place wheere ye blood of yo slaine ran into yo sea of Gallile; 9, y Middeterranian sen. Att y west end of this Mountaine is yo village of Deborn. And a Church, in weh ye 9 Appostles rested when or savior went vp the mount wth se other 3.06
34 July. Wee departed from Nszereth at 11 Clock at night, & ye 4 July we, at 5 in y morninge arrived at 8 Jno de Acra. The Charge of this Jorney Cost each man 13 Lyon Dollergoe besides his gifts.
Seo Pococko, Travels in the East, p. 459.
N Bou Maundrell, Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 155. # The inn of the merchants: the Commercial Inn. " See Maundrell, A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 156. * See Pocooke, Travels in the East, P. 456.
WA Dutch coin bearing the figure of a lion.
