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NABLUS.
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Samaritans when we visited Nablus in 1856. He was then a fine old man of seventy-three
years of age. He was learned in Samaritan lore and had gained great influence not only
over his own community, but over the credulous of other creeds, on account of his widely
spread reputation for skill in occult sciences. Amran, his nephew and adopted son, next
to him in age, and therefore his successor, was the ministering priest. He was forty-seven
PART OF THE COLONNADE WHICH ONCE ENCIRCLED SAMARIA.
On the south side, near to the west end, a great number of columns are still standing.
years of age, married, but with no surviving children. The next in order of age and succes-
sion was his cousin Yakub, then an unmarried youth of fourteen years of age; and Amran
greatly feared that the family might become extinct, in which case the people would be left
without a priest. He asked us confidentially if we thought that the English people would
be displeased and withdraw their protection from the Samaritans, if he, their priest, were to
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Samaritans when we visited Nablus in 1856. He was then a fine old man of seventy-three
years of age. He was learned in Samaritan lore and had gained great influence not only
over his own community, but over the credulous of other creeds, on account of his widely
spread reputation for skill in occult sciences. Amran, his nephew and adopted son, next
to him in age, and therefore his successor, was the ministering priest. He was forty-seven
PART OF THE COLONNADE WHICH ONCE ENCIRCLED SAMARIA.
On the south side, near to the west end, a great number of columns are still standing.
years of age, married, but with no surviving children. The next in order of age and succes-
sion was his cousin Yakub, then an unmarried youth of fourteen years of age; and Amran
greatly feared that the family might become extinct, in which case the people would be left
without a priest. He asked us confidentially if we thought that the English people would
be displeased and withdraw their protection from the Samaritans, if he, their priest, were to