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196' TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,
I hired mules at Acri, and, attended by a single mocarri,
or muleteer, and m}r servant, set out for Nazareth on the
9th of September, through a plain partly marsh and partly
pasture. In two hours and a half we gained, by a gently
rising ground, the summit of a range of hills covered with
the Turkish oak ; and afterwards descended into the plain of
Sephora, which is wide and beautiful, being laid out in pas-
ture, and in the cultivation of tobacco and cotton, then
in full bloom, and enclosed on all sides by mountains. In
the centre of this plain a band of herdsmen, armed with mus-
quets, were watering their cattle in a large stone reservoir*,
and were disposed to make me pay a caphar; this, however,
I resisted, on the strength of being an Englishman, which
satisfied them, and they allowed me to pass. From this
plain we ascended a hill, where is situated the village of
Sephora, through plantations of figs and olives; whence by a
descent we entered another plain, and then ascended to the
hill of Nazareth, from the top of which we looked down on
the village of that name, rising with the side of the hill.
I was taken to the convent, situated at the bottom of the
The fountain of Sephoury, probably that where the kings of Jerusalem,
during the holy war, encamped their armies, on account of the great plenty
of water and herbage that there is about this place; and it is particularly men-
tioned in the siege of Acri, See Pococke.
I hired mules at Acri, and, attended by a single mocarri,
or muleteer, and m}r servant, set out for Nazareth on the
9th of September, through a plain partly marsh and partly
pasture. In two hours and a half we gained, by a gently
rising ground, the summit of a range of hills covered with
the Turkish oak ; and afterwards descended into the plain of
Sephora, which is wide and beautiful, being laid out in pas-
ture, and in the cultivation of tobacco and cotton, then
in full bloom, and enclosed on all sides by mountains. In
the centre of this plain a band of herdsmen, armed with mus-
quets, were watering their cattle in a large stone reservoir*,
and were disposed to make me pay a caphar; this, however,
I resisted, on the strength of being an Englishman, which
satisfied them, and they allowed me to pass. From this
plain we ascended a hill, where is situated the village of
Sephora, through plantations of figs and olives; whence by a
descent we entered another plain, and then ascended to the
hill of Nazareth, from the top of which we looked down on
the village of that name, rising with the side of the hill.
I was taken to the convent, situated at the bottom of the
The fountain of Sephoury, probably that where the kings of Jerusalem,
during the holy war, encamped their armies, on account of the great plenty
of water and herbage that there is about this place; and it is particularly men-
tioned in the siege of Acri, See Pococke.