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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
The holy places of Nazareth are as diverse as the sects which are there represented, but
there is only one which has any interest for the thoughtful student, the Greek Church of the
Annunciation, near the fountain of the town. The fountain, or rather the mouth of the pipe
by which the water is conveyed from the spring to a large open basin with drinking and
A GALILEAN HAMLET NEAR NAZARETH.
A garden-house in the foreground, with a birket, or raised pool, adjoining it ; water flows from the pool into little channels which traverse
the garden.
washing troughs fed from it, is in an open place surrounded with cactus and olive trees, the
favourite camp'ing ground of European travellers, just to the east of the town. This must
ever have been the well of Nazareth, and the only one. Hither come from sunrise till long
after sunset the maids and matrons of Nazareth to fill their tall pitchers, with their little ones
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
The holy places of Nazareth are as diverse as the sects which are there represented, but
there is only one which has any interest for the thoughtful student, the Greek Church of the
Annunciation, near the fountain of the town. The fountain, or rather the mouth of the pipe
by which the water is conveyed from the spring to a large open basin with drinking and
A GALILEAN HAMLET NEAR NAZARETH.
A garden-house in the foreground, with a birket, or raised pool, adjoining it ; water flows from the pool into little channels which traverse
the garden.
washing troughs fed from it, is in an open place surrounded with cactus and olive trees, the
favourite camp'ing ground of European travellers, just to the east of the town. This must
ever have been the well of Nazareth, and the only one. Hither come from sunrise till long
after sunset the maids and matrons of Nazareth to fill their tall pitchers, with their little ones