“Know ye the land of the cedar and vine,

Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine ?

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY
MAR 5 1841

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by

HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York.

En Route to Palestine.-Lady Hester Stanhope.—Reverend Joseph Wolff.

-Sidon.-Mutations of Commerce.—The Fall of Rome.-Commerce in

the olden Time.-Westward March of Commerce

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LETTER XXV.

Tyre.- Prophecies against Tyre.-Fulfilment of Prophecy.-Tyrian Dye.

-Maronites.-Sight of a Hareem.-Jewish Pilgrims.-Wells of Solo-

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LETTER XXVI.

Nazareth.- Acre.-Empress Helena. Decay of Palestine.- A Serenade.

-The Tale of the Crusaders.-An Adventure.-A Night Alarm.--Ap-

proach to Nazareth.-Church of the Annunciation.—Monkish Legends.

-Sincerity in Delusion

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LETTER XXVII.

Arrival at Jerusalem.-Early Christian Ages.-Hopes of Zion.-Miracle of

the Wine.- Place of the first Miracle. --Mount of Beatitudes.-Tiberias.

-The Sea of Galilee. -The Khan described. - Mount Tabor.- Plain of

Esdraelon.--City of Samaria.-Tomb of Joseph

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LETTER XXVIII.

Site of Shiloh.-Capture of Shiloh's Daughters.---Beth-el. -Jacob's Vision.

-First Sight of the Holy City.-Eligible Lodging-place. The Holy

City.-Present State of Jerusalem.-Poetic Travellers.-- Jerusalem as it

was.-The Hills of Jerusalem

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LETTER XXIX.

Moods of Travellers.—Worshippers at the Holy City.—Emotions of the

Christian.-Topography of Jerusalem.--Walls of Jerusalem.-Pool of