The travels of the late Charles Thompson, Esq. containing his observations on France, Italy, Turkey in Europe, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, and many other parts of the world : giving a particular and faithful account of what is most remarkable in the manners, religion, polity, antiquities, and natural history of those countries with a curious description of Jerusalem as it now appears, and other places mention'd in the Holy Scriptures the whole forming a compleat view of the ancient and modern state of great part of Europe, Asia, and Africa / publish's from the author's original manuscript, interspers'd with the remarks of several other modern travellers, and illustrated with historical, geographical, and miscellaneous notes by the editor.
- Thompson, Charles, active 1750
- Date:
- 1744
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The travels of the late Charles Thompson, Esq. containing his observations on France, Italy, Turkey in Europe, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, and many other parts of the world : giving a particular and faithful account of what is most remarkable in the manners, religion, polity, antiquities, and natural history of those countries with a curious description of Jerusalem as it now appears, and other places mention'd in the Holy Scriptures the whole forming a compleat view of the ancient and modern state of great part of Europe, Asia, and Africa / publish's from the author's original manuscript, interspers'd with the remarks of several other modern travellers, and illustrated with historical, geographical, and miscellaneous notes by the editor. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![an Underftanding with the Arabs, and even to favour their Robberies, We kept, our Courfe to the South, diseétly down the Valley of Bocat, having Anti-Libanus on our Lefts and after travelling three ‘Hours, we began to afcend. croffing it, the Road in fome Places, being rough and troublefome, we came to a Village call’d Surgawich. Fiere we enter’d a narrow Valley, along which wecon- tinued our Journey; and_having pafs’ d by the Source of the River Barrady, in an Hour and a half we came to a Fountain call’d ya i] Hawra, where we took up our Quarters that Night;, our, Stage this Day be- ing’ feven Hours and. a half, and our - Courfe South- Fat. the greateft Part of the Way. Tue next Morning we kept along the Valley, up- on the Banks of the Bar rady, and in two Hours ar- ° rivd at the Village of Maday. WHaying travell’d on about three Hours more, the Mountains. being rocky and, fteep on each Side of the Valley, we {pied feve- ral tall Pillars on the other Side of the River, which we judged to have been Part of fome ancient and ftately Edifice; but of what Kind, without a nearer View of them, it would have boon in vain to con- — jecture. At the End_of this Valley, in which we had. travell’d all Day, we came to a high Hill, on the Top whereof is ah ancient Structure, “fuppofed to be the Tomb of /Ze/, and to have given the Name of di- Tene to the adjacent Country, The Tomb is thirty Yards long; and yet the ignorant People hereabouts ‘believe it to have been but juft proportion’d to Abel’s Stature : Some alfo pretend that this is the Place where he.was mureer’d by his Brother. Not far from this Hill is a {mall pee call’d Sinie, through which we pafs’d, and in lefs than two Hours arriv’d at another Village call’d Dummer, where we ftaid all Night, be- ing juft three Hours fhort of Dama/cus. In the Morning we crofs’d the Barrady at a new Bridge](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30527491_0002_0449.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
