The Holy Land and the Bible; . lved cutting trenches in the rocks, and building-conduits over hollows. A huge reservoir, like a cavern, had also beenquarried out in the rock, to guard against accidental failure of thewater-supply; its height varying from eight to twenty feet, and itsbreadth from eight to fifteen; while it has been traced westwards,through long-accumulated wreckage, for 580 feet. Low mud hovelshave been l3nilt against what remains of the church of St. Anne, arelic of the Crusaders; and there is a large ruin called a castle, but itappears to be of recent date, though probably th
The Holy Land and the Bible; . lved cutting trenches in the rocks, and building-conduits over hollows. A huge reservoir, like a cavern, had also beenquarried out in the rock, to guard against accidental failure of thewater-supply; its height varying from eight to twenty feet, and itsbreadth from eight to fifteen; while it has been traced westwards,through long-accumulated wreckage, for 580 feet. Low mud hovelshave been l3nilt against what remains of the church of St. Anne, arelic of the Crusaders; and there is a large ruin called a castle, but itappears to be of recent date, though probably the successor of somemuch more ancient fortress. The view from the roof is the north lies the village of Kefr Menda; east of this, if its claimbe admitted, Cana of Galilee. To the south-east is the tomb on thehill behind Nazareth, and just below you are the hovels and houses ofSeffurieh itself. In the time of Josephus, Sepphoris was the largest o p 3 ?d p cmp a < »a•< Xp 3 3 cc ps& (Eo p oBp cp c CO. EL-BUTTAUF, CAKA, THE MOUNT OF 15EATITUDES. 535 town of Galilee, and after the destruction of Jcrasalern, continued to bethe head-quarters of the Jewish people till the fourth centiny, the San-hedrim having its seat here. Cliristian tradition alleges that the Vir-gin spent her childhood in Sepphoris, but of this there is no platform on which the citadel once rose is covered with thickgrass. In the narrow dirty streets lay some great mill-stones, evi-dently ancient; and on the roofs oi some of the houses were earthen-ware bee-hives, with thriving colonies. Above the squalid huts rosea few buildings of hewn stones, with windows, and an upper cliamberon the roof. Kefr Kenna, or Cana, lies on high ground,^ but not on a hill. Anancient sarcophagus close to the village, beside a small square tankwhich is fed from a spring, serves very well as a trough. A girl in awhite skirt and red jacket, bare-headed and bare-footed, with her jaron her head, was a
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