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Title: Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm) Socin, Albert, 1844-1899 Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935 Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
Subjects: Palestine -- Guidebooks Syria -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York, C. Scribner's sons (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ince the 12th cent, localized theSaltus Domini, where the Nazarenes attempted to cast Christ downheadlong (p. 238). To the E. of this hill is the mouth of a preci-pitous wadi, which, however, we do not ascend. We turn more tothe left, following the slope of the hill, and then mount (10 min.) bya steep path. This leads to (I/4 hr.) a small valley which we followtowards the N., past a spring calleil Bir Abu Yeiseh, to (10 min.)Ydfd, a village on the road from Haifa to Nazareth (p. 238). The village of Jfain may be visited by making a slight digression(40 min.) from Sulem. We follow at first the direct road to Nazarethabove described, and then, after 35 min., diverge from it to the left.The road skirts the base of the hill and soon reaches (1/2 hr.) Nain, a smallvillage famed as the scene of the raising of the widows son (Luke vii.11-15). The village consists of wretched clay huts. Near it are rock-tombs and a Franciscan chapel. Farther on we leave (/a hr.) Iksdl on the Wi^r^^W^W^^WW!^^^
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NJAZAR KIM, E N-NAS 1 RA1 1IX>00 \Famcrsi.BarJe\ \ltop iNmmer) ofjiame^/e^azarei/it Cnia nuavrtflattnBovpicA il^-JrSu Corn Market/ NAZARETH. 30. Route. 241 right, and soon reach (25 ruin.) the liill from which his enemies attemptedto throw the Saviour (p. 240). The digression may be prolonged from Nain to (1 hr.) Endur, the roadto which also skirts the foot of the hill. The small and dirty villagecontains no antiquities except a few caverns. This was the ancient Sudor,a town ofManasseh, where the shade of Samuel was raised by the witchand consulted by Saul on the eve of the disastrous battle of Oilboa (1 Sam.xxviii. 7-20). In the time of Eusebius Endor was still a large village.— In returning from Endur we cross the valley again, this time towardsthe N.W.; and after l/2 hr. we reach the Nain road near Iksal. 30. Nazareth. Accommodation. Hotel Germania (landlord, Heseltchicert), at the S.entrance to the town, plain but good and clean, pension (without wine)8-iO fr.; Hospice (Cosa

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