Science papers, chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury ... Edited, with memoir by Joseph Ince.

  • Daniel Hanbury
Date:
1876
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Credit: Science papers, chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury ... Edited, with memoir by Joseph Ince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    masonry, and proceeded a long way through wretched lanes, amongst still more wretched bazaars, to the street called Straight, wherein was their hotel. Great alarm prevailed amongst the Christians, who were all leaving after the massacre, and ruins piled four feet deep were in every lane ; there were heaps of muti- lated corpses, hones, and stench; burnt books and pictures ; 3,500 to 4,000 troops ; much sickness, dysen- tery, and diarrhoea. Amid such scenes, they went down their street, which is called, but is not, straight. Omit- ting the details of the route and the misery of the Jewish population, they came to Jerusalem : the Church Jerusalem, of the Holy Sepulchre, the Place of Wailing, the Mosque of Omar, and the hundred other scenes which will remain memorable throughout all time. At Nablous, the ancient Sychar, the bigoted Moslem inhabitants cursed the travellers, and the boys jeered at them in the street. They visited the Samaritan synagogue, and went by a filthy town route, almost on hands and knees, along dark alleys, to the Chief Eabbi's house. He was a fine civil old man, who took them into a dingy chamber, and showed them the Samaritan Pentateuch. It appears, Samaritan however, that a copy, and never the true, old book, is teueh] shown to strangers. So they were told at least by Professor Lewisohn, a Russian converted Jew, who had spent much time in Nablous. He has examined the original, and finds by the final letters of the columns that it is of the age of Phineas, son of Eli. At Nazareth their quiet was disturbed by groups of Nazareth, women and girls, who crowded round the well by hun- dreds, waiting to draw water. They camped amongst the olives near the well outside the town ; all Saturday the disturbance was continued, nor on Sunday was the