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Rh sepulchre: passing through a ruinate door, you come into the yard where his well is, being a very good spring of sweet water, and there you pay one livre. Afterwards passing along the side of a mountain that lies level with the city, a little beyond Jeremiah’s tomb, we came to the sepulchre of the kings; the first entrance into the rooms is so small and low, that we were forced to creep; in the first are seven sepulchres cut out of the rock, in the second room there are eight, and in the third twenty six, and many more in several others. One of the rooms hath a door of stone cut out of the rock, and shuts and opens as a door with hinges: This door belongs to the room wherein Jehosaphat was buried, his coffin is of stone, with a cover to it, very neatly wrought on the sides with flowers, as severals are also in the first room; but they know not what kings they are. There is also another chamber into which we crept, so that there is in all forty-two burying-placts under ground, to which there is but one door to enter, all adorned with admirable workmanship, which I being unskilled in, am unfit to express in proper terms; and so we returned to the convent, entering the city at the same gate.

May 29th. We reposed, some of our