called [Hebrew:], the Levite Cohon.
Cf. Adler and Seligsohn's _Une nouvelle chronique
Samaritaine_. (Paris: Durlacher, 1903.)]

[Footnote 73: The small square building known as Joseph's
tomb lies a short distance north of Jacob's well, at the
eastern entrance to the vale of Nablous.]

[Footnote 74: Cf. Guy Le Strange, _Palestine_, 381, and
Rapoport's Note 166, Asher's _Benjamin_, vol. II, p. 87.]

[Footnote 75: The MSS. are defective here; starting from
Shechem, Mount Gilboa, which to this day presents a bare
appearance, is in a different direction to Ajalon. It is
doubtful whether Benjamin personally visited all the places
mentioned in his _Itinerary_. His visit took place not long
after the second great Crusade, when Palestine under the
kings of Jerusalem was disturbed by internal dissensions and
the onslaughts of the Saracens under Nur-ed-din of Damascus
and his generals. Benjamin could at best visit the places of
note only when the opportunity offered.]

[Footnote 76: This and most of the other places mentioned by
Benjamin are more or less identified in the very important
work published by the Palestine Exploration Fund, _The
Survey of Western Palestine_. Our author's statements are
carefully examined, and Colonel Conder, after expatiating
upon the extraordinary mistakes made by writers in the time
of the Crusaders, some of whom actually confounded the sea
of Galilee with the Mediterranean, says: "The mediaeval
Jewish pilgrims appear as a rule to have had a much more
accurate knowledge both of the country and of the Bible.
Their assertions are borne out by existing remains, and are
of the greatest value."]

[Footnote 77: King Baldwin III died in 1162, and was
succeeded by his brother Almaric.]

[Footnote 78: The reading of the Roman MS. that there were
but four Jewish inhabitants at Jerusalem is in conformity
with R. Pethachia, who passed through Palestine some ten or
twenty years after R. Benjamin, and found but one Jew there.
The [Hebrew: daleth] meaning four would easily be misread
for [Hebrew: resh] meaning 200.]

[Footnote 79: The Knights of the Hospital of St. John and
the Templars are here referred to. See Gibbon, _Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire_; Charles Mills, _History of the
Crusades_, 4t