s of the graves of Jewish
worthies in our literature, but it is not easy to reconcile
the different versions. See Jacob ben Nethanel's Itinerary
given in Lunez's _Jerusalem_, 1906, VII, p. 87.]

[Footnote 96: Both BM. and R have [Hebrew:], whilst E and A
have the faulty reading [Hebrew:]. The Seder Hadoroth has
the same reading as E and A. Jehuda Halevi died about thirty
years before Benjamin's visit, and the question of the
burial-place of our great national poet is thus finally
settled.]

[Footnote 97: The common belief is that Simon the Just was
buried near Jerusalem, on the road to Nablous, about a mile
from the Damascus Gate.]

[Footnote 98: Cf. Schechter's _Saadyana_, p. 89.]

[Footnote 99: The passage referring to the Arnon is
evidently out of place.]

[Footnote 100: See Deut. xi. 24.]

[Footnote 101: For a description of the city and its great
mosque, see Baedeker, also Guy Le Strange, _Palestine under
the Moslems_, chap. vi. The most eastern dome of the mosque
is to this day called Kubbet-es-Saa, the Dome of Hours.
Mukaddasi gives an elaborate description of the mosaics and
other features of this mosque.]

[Footnote 102: Cf. _Midrash Raba_, chap, xiv: [Hebrew:];
also Josephus, _Ant_. I, vii, 2 who quotes Nicolaus of
Damascus in the words "_In Damasco regnarit Abramus._"]

[Footnote 103: Pethachia estimates the Jewish population at
19,000. This confirms the opinion already given (p. 26) that
Benjamin refers to heads of families.]

[Footnote 104: Dr. W. Bacher with justice observes that, at
the time of the Crusades, the traditions of the Palestinian
Gaonate seem to have survived at Damascus. See _J. Q.R._,
XV, pp. 79-96.]

[Footnote 105: Galid as a city cannot be identified. Salchah
is in the Eastern Hauran, half a day's journey from Bosra,
and is spoken of in Scripture as a frontier city of Bashan.
(Deut. iii. 10; Joshua xii. 5.) It lies a long way to the
south of Damascus, whilst Baalbec lies to the north.]

[Footnote 106: Tarmod is Tadmor or Palmyra.]

[Footnote 107: The important city Emesa, now called Homs, is
here probably indicated. In scripture, Gen. x. 18, the
Zemarite and the Hamathite are grouped together among the
Canaanite families. In this district is the intermittent
sp