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VOL. XI.

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THE

CONTENTS

OF THE

ELEVENTH VOLUME.

MAUNDRELL'S Travels from ALEPPO to

JERUSALEM.

P.

CHAP. I. The Author Jets out in Company

with Fourteen English Gentlemen from A-

leppo. The Manner of their Travelling, and

Nature of their Accommodations. They are

obliged by a Storm to take shelter among the

Tombs of Turkish Saints, with an Account

of the City of Latikea, and of a Nation called

Neceres.

CHAP. II. A Defcription of Jebilee, and of

the Tomb of the Sultan Ibrahim: they continue

their Journey to Tripoly, and meet with Se→

veral Antiquities in their Paffage, particularly

an uncovered Temple, supposed to have been

dedicated to Hercules, and fome remarkable Se-

pulchral Monuments.
P. 9.

CHAP, III. Their Reception at Tripoly. The

Manner in which Divine Service is performed

in the Greek Convent at Bellmont. Their

Vifit to Oitan Baffa of Tripoly, with an

Account of the Ceremonies ufed in vifiting the

Great; and a Defcription of the City of Tri-

poly.
P. 17.

CHAP. IV. They profecute their Journey. A

Defcription of Gibyle, the Byblus of the

Greeks, famous for being the Birth-place of

Adonis. A learned and curious Account of

Several Antiquities in that Neighbourhood. Of

the Emir Faccardine, and his Palace and Gar-

dens. The Antiquities found in the City of Be-

root.

P. 22

CHAP. V. A Description of Sidon, and the An-

tiquities they met with in paffing from thence

to Tyre: the prefent State of this laft City,

with a particular Account of Solomon's Cif-

terns; the City of Acra, or Ptolemais, and

other Places in that Neighbourhood.
P. 31

CHAP. VI. They pass through the Country of

Samaria. Mr. Maundrell has a Conference

with the Chief Priest of the Samaritans.

Some curious Remarks on the ancient Fertility

and prefent Barrenness of the Land of Judea.

P. 41

CHAP. VII. They arrive at Jerufalem. A

Defcription of the Church of the Holy Sepul-

chre on Mount Calvary, and a circumftantial

Account of the Ceremonies annually used there

on Good Friday. The Celebration of Eafter,

and the Author's Vifit to the Sepulchres of the

Kings.

P. 48

CHAP.

CHAP. VIII. The Author's Journey to the Ri-

ver Jordan and the Dead Sea, with a De-

fcription of both. He vifits Bethlehem, and

the remarkable Places near it.
P. 58

CHAP. IX. They vifit Bethlehem and the Places

adjacent. A Defcription of King Solomon's

Pools, and of many real or imaginary facred

Antiquities.
P. 66

CHAP. X. Their Journey to the Convent of St.

John in the Wilderness. They fee many re-

markable Places there. A very particular Ac-

count of the Holy Fire at Jerufalem, and of

fome extraordinary Practices of the Priefts and

Monks.

CHAP. XI. An Account of the many remark-

able Places in Jerufalem and its Neighbour-

P. 77

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bood.

CHAP. XII. Their Departure from Jerufalem,

and Journey from thence to Nazareth.

Defcription of that Village, and of Mount Ta-

bor, and an Account of what happened in their

Journey till they came within fight of Damaf-

cus.

P. 88

CHAP. XIII. A Defcription of the City of Da-

mafcus, and of the adjacent Country, as it

appears from the top of a high Rock. An Ac-

count of the City and its Buildings. The Ca-

valcade of the Hadgees fetting out on the Pil-

grimage to Mecca, and an Account of feveral

Places round the City.

97

CHAP. XIV. They travel to Balbec, the He-

liopolis of the Ancients. A Defcription of that

City and its magnificent Ruins. They encamp

amidft the Snows of Mount Libanus, and after-

wards