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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. 199
Not far from this is another chape], enclosing a large
piece of rock, whose surface has been rendered smooth and
level, large enough to allow a dozen people to sit round it.
This is described, in Latin and Italian, as the place of our
Saviour's last supper with the disciples, previous to their de-
parture with him from Nazareth to Jerusalem *.
Outside the village is shown the place where the multi-
tude would have thrown our Saviour down the brow of a
hill f.
I quitted Nazareth on the following morning, the 10th,
for Tiberias, called Tabaria, having procured a guide and
horses in the village; and, for the first time, left my canteens
behind me, which I had afterwards reason to regret, being ill
supplied with provisions and utensils for the journey. We
took the road for Mount Tabor, and arrived at the foot of it
in about two hours, having been nearly the whole of the way
in a wood of Sindian or Turkish oak, whose acorn differs
from the common one by growing in a tufted pod. We as-
cended the north-west side, Avhich seems less isolated than
the other parts of the mountain ; continuing through thickets
of the above named tree, till we arrived at the summit, in
about an hour and a half. The only habitations perceptible
* In the time of Pococke, this appears to have been in a quarry,
t St. Luke, iv. 29.
Not far from this is another chape], enclosing a large
piece of rock, whose surface has been rendered smooth and
level, large enough to allow a dozen people to sit round it.
This is described, in Latin and Italian, as the place of our
Saviour's last supper with the disciples, previous to their de-
parture with him from Nazareth to Jerusalem *.
Outside the village is shown the place where the multi-
tude would have thrown our Saviour down the brow of a
hill f.
I quitted Nazareth on the following morning, the 10th,
for Tiberias, called Tabaria, having procured a guide and
horses in the village; and, for the first time, left my canteens
behind me, which I had afterwards reason to regret, being ill
supplied with provisions and utensils for the journey. We
took the road for Mount Tabor, and arrived at the foot of it
in about two hours, having been nearly the whole of the way
in a wood of Sindian or Turkish oak, whose acorn differs
from the common one by growing in a tufted pod. We as-
cended the north-west side, Avhich seems less isolated than
the other parts of the mountain ; continuing through thickets
of the above named tree, till we arrived at the summit, in
about an hour and a half. The only habitations perceptible
* In the time of Pococke, this appears to have been in a quarry,
t St. Luke, iv. 29.