-- 55
16. 47 7 52
17. -- -- 55
18. 52 8 58
22. 59 -- 69
23. 52 -- 55
24. -- -- 57
25. 42 -- 51
26. 49 -- 60
27. 58 -- 62
28. 59 -- 69
29. 56 -- 60
30. 55 -- 65
31. 55 -- 64
June 1. 56 -- 58
2. 52 -- 60
3. 55 -- 59

Here it ceased to be an object of remark.

NOTE TO PAGE 24.

This practice of insulting the religion of such as profess a faith
different from their own has ever been a characteristic of the Oriental
nations, and is illustrative of a passage in the New Testament, which I
have not seen explained by any of the commentators: I mean the
expression of our Saviour, where he denounces the votaries of avarice,
by declaring that "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a
needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

For a long time previous to Christ's appearance, it had been usual for
the "Sons of Ishmael," or pagan Arabs of Asia Minor, to make hostile
incursions into the provincial towns of Judea, and riding their
dromedaries into the synagogues, to desecrate the altar in the manner
here ascribed to the Turks. In order to put a stop to these enormities,
the Jews hit upon the expedient of constructing the doors of their
churches so low, that an ordinary-sized man could only enter by
stooping; and thus they completely foiled their persecutors, for the
disinclination of the Arabs to dismount, even on the most pressing
occasions, is well known to such as have travelled among these sons of
the Desert. In the hyperbolical phraseology of the East, these
diminished apertures were compared to the eye of a needle; and the
impossibility of a camel making his way through them, became at length a
proverbial expression for any impracticable undertaking.

THE END.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] As we sailed through the strait formed by it and the
mainland,--and a very beautiful scene it affords,--I was
informed by those on board, tha