IN

PALESTINE,

MOUNT SINAI AND ARABIA PETRÆA.

A JOURNAL OF TRAVELS IN THE YEAR 1838,

BY

E. ROBINSON AND E. SMITH.

UNDERTAKEN IN REFERENCE TO BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY.

DRAWN UP FROM THE ORIGINAL DIARIES, WITH HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS,

BY EDWARD ROBINSON, D.D.

Professor of Biblical Literature in the Union Theological Seminary, New York;
Author of a Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament, etc.

NEW YORK-JONA. LEAVITT: LONDON-JOHN MURRAY:

HALLE-WAISENHAUSBUCHHANDLUNG.

1841.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.

University Press. JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER, 114 Nassau-street, N. Y.

CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

SECTION XIII.

FROM HEBRON TO RAMLEH AND JERUSALEM.

Pages 1-69.

June 6th. Difficulty of obtaining a guide at Hebron, 1. Way to Dûra,

1,2. Dùra, Nubian slave, village quarrel, 2, 3. Subsequent rebellion, 4.

Ancient Adoraim, Adora, Dora, 4, 5. Proceed towards el-Burj; Wady

el-Keis, 5. Easy descent of the mountains, 5. Harvest scene, ruins, 6.

El-Burj, 6.-June 7th. Disappointment in el-Burj, 7. El-Khuweilifeh,

a watering-place, 8. Caves, people from Dûra, 8, 9. Pistol lost, clamour,

9. Um esh-Shŭkaf, harvest-scenes, 9, 10. Indefinite replies: Straight

ahead, etc. 10. Way to Idhna, ruins, 10. The Sheikh "saddles his ass"

and accompanies us as a guide, 11. Terkûmieh, Tricomias, 11, 12.

Heat of day, 12. Beit Nusîb, Nezib, 12, 13. Rich and fertile region,

many sites of ruins, 13. Wady es-Sûr and wells, not Beth-zur, 14. Im-

mense Butm-tree, Pistacia Terebinthus, 15. To Beit Nettîf, 16.

June 8th. Warm morning, 17. Way to 'Ain Shems, 17. 'Ain Shems,

Beth-shemesh and Ir-shemesh, 17, 18, 19. Wady Surâr, Râfât, 20.

Great plain, Khulda, drawing water "with the foot," 21. To 'Akir, 21.

'Akir, Ekron, 22-25. Yebna, Jabneh, Wely and Wady Rubin, 22.

Ramleh; lodge with 'Abûd Murkus, 25. Hospitality, upper room, wash-

ing the feet, 26. Tower of Ramleh, beautiful prospect, 26-31. Ancient

places visible, 30. Yâfa, population, etc. 31. Household of our host, females

not visible, 31, 32. Evening upon the flat roof, 32. Restless night, 32, 33.

-Historical notices of Ramleh; not an ancient town, 33-36. The tower

once a minaret, 36-40. Ramleh not Ramah; yet a Ramatha somewhere

in this region, perhaps Arimathea, 40-44. Other towns in the plain, Sa-

riphaea, Jehud, 45. Antipatris, now Kefr Sâba, 45-47. Galgula, 47.

Itineraries, 48.

June 9th. Early departure; attentiveness of our host, 48. Ludd,

Lydda, Diospolis, 49, 50. Ruined church of St. George, 49, 51. His-

torical notices, 50-55. Dâniyâl, 56. Jimzu, Gimzo, 56. Two roads up

the mountain; we cross the fields from one to the other; el-Burj, 57.

Kharûb-tree, Ceratonia, its pods, 58. Females; mother of a conscript,

58. Beit 'Ur et-Tahta, Nether Beth-horon, 59. Ascent or Pass, 59.