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Rh Where our Saviour appeared to Mary Magdalen in the shape of a gardener. 11th. The chapel of the virgin Mary, where our Saviour first appeared to her after his resurrection. I might give you a particular description of the adornment of these places; but to be short every one of them have lamps burning, some are paved with marble, others are hung with pictures: the place where our Saviour was laid down to be nailed to the cross is paved with marble also, but in the exact place where the cross stood, the marble is covered over with silver, with silver lamps, and wax candles continually burning, and our Saviour crucified standing on it: the sepulchre is also covered with marble, with silver lamps continually burning on it; so hath the anointing stone. You must go into the sepulchre barefoot, as also on Mount Calvary.

May 28th. We went out of the city at Damascus gate, and turning on the right came to one of the fish ponds of the old city, and a quarter of a mile further to the grot where Jeremiah lived when he wrote his Lamentations; on the left hand in the entrance, is a lodge in the rock, about a story high, where they say Jeremiah slept; and below, over against the door, is a hole intended for his