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RUINS AND STRUCTURES IN THE HOLY LAND. 1 IQ
bags of gold, were each of them named after some Saint.
One large leathern bag, which it was thought he wor-
shipped, he, as it were, dedicated to God the father, an-
other to the Son, and a third to the third person in the Tri-
nity. These bags also on holydays, saints-days, and other
festivals of the Church, he used to decorate in the same
manner as others do their images. Being upon his death-
bed, finding no hope of life, he desired every person to
withdraw; when after being absent about a quarter of an
hour, his friends returning, found him stretched out, grasp-
ing with his arms the largest of his bags, and with both his
hands filled with various pieces of gold. In fine, such was
the enormous avarice of this wretch, that nothing but the
quality and interference of his friends prevented a printed
account of his whole life from being published. They,
however, could not prevent the circumstances here related
from being descanted upon in several of the pulpits of that
city.
Famous Rajivs.and Structures in the Holy Land$c.
[Described by a late Traveller.]
U AV HEN you (says this writer) approach the Isthmus,
on the peninsula of ancient Tyre, you see some gar-
dens planted with mulberries to feed silk worms. Near
these are three curious basons built with stone, of a circu-
lar form, and raised about ten feet above the surface of the
ground; the largest of them is about sixty yards in circum-
ference, and has steps all round its inside like an amphithe-
atre, narrowing gradually from the surface to the bottom.
But the force of the springs which fill these basons is such,
that a stone near three pounds weight will be some time
carried about before it sinks to the bottom. These basons
afford so much water, that all the adjacent gardens and
some water-mills are supplied with their streams. They
were constructed by the ancient Tyrians, and though the
moderns
bags of gold, were each of them named after some Saint.
One large leathern bag, which it was thought he wor-
shipped, he, as it were, dedicated to God the father, an-
other to the Son, and a third to the third person in the Tri-
nity. These bags also on holydays, saints-days, and other
festivals of the Church, he used to decorate in the same
manner as others do their images. Being upon his death-
bed, finding no hope of life, he desired every person to
withdraw; when after being absent about a quarter of an
hour, his friends returning, found him stretched out, grasp-
ing with his arms the largest of his bags, and with both his
hands filled with various pieces of gold. In fine, such was
the enormous avarice of this wretch, that nothing but the
quality and interference of his friends prevented a printed
account of his whole life from being published. They,
however, could not prevent the circumstances here related
from being descanted upon in several of the pulpits of that
city.
Famous Rajivs.and Structures in the Holy Land$c.
[Described by a late Traveller.]
U AV HEN you (says this writer) approach the Isthmus,
on the peninsula of ancient Tyre, you see some gar-
dens planted with mulberries to feed silk worms. Near
these are three curious basons built with stone, of a circu-
lar form, and raised about ten feet above the surface of the
ground; the largest of them is about sixty yards in circum-
ference, and has steps all round its inside like an amphithe-
atre, narrowing gradually from the surface to the bottom.
But the force of the springs which fill these basons is such,
that a stone near three pounds weight will be some time
carried about before it sinks to the bottom. These basons
afford so much water, that all the adjacent gardens and
some water-mills are supplied with their streams. They
were constructed by the ancient Tyrians, and though the
moderns