. A description of the East, and some other countries . ON PALESTINE. lomon, and returned to Bethlehem. The pilgrims formerly ufed to goto Hebron, but fome Chriftians having, as they fay, killed a Mahome-tan there, they have not ventured to go fince that time, though I havebeen informed that the Jews vilit thofe parts. CHAP. XI. Of the fountain of P h i l i P, the convent and defert of , and the convent of the H o l y Cross. ON the tenth, we fet out for the defert of St. John, which is com-puted to be about fix miles north north weft from went out of the town to the weft, a
. A description of the East, and some other countries . ON PALESTINE. lomon, and returned to Bethlehem. The pilgrims formerly ufed to goto Hebron, but fome Chriftians having, as they fay, killed a Mahome-tan there, they have not ventured to go fince that time, though I havebeen informed that the Jews vilit thofe parts. CHAP. XI. Of the fountain of P h i l i P, the convent and defert of , and the convent of the H o l y Cross. ON the tenth, we fet out for the defert of St. John, which is com-puted to be about fix miles north north weft from went out of the town to the weft, and turning northwardscame into a vale, which the monks call the valley of Rephaira, andfay, that it was here the angel of the Lord fmote the army of Sennache-rib *; but as Jofephus >• gives an account, that he loft part of his armyon the firft night of the fiege of Jerufalem, by a peftilence that was fentamong them, it is more probable, that this happened in the valley ofRephaim, which is on the weft fide of Jerufalem. On the hills to the weft, w
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