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188 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,TtJWEHS TN HAKBOnB O.V BfilHl'TTKCHAPTER V.Departure from Jerusalem—^Embarkation at Jaffa for Acri—Arrival—Government—Remarkson the last attempts of Buonaparte to storm the town-Anecdote of cruelty of Djrazar Pasha—Country between Acri and Nazareth•i—Convent at this village—Anecdote of a Christian woman—Inhospitableconduct of the villagers—^Ascent of Mount Tabor—^View from thence—Plains between this mountain and Tiberias—Picturesque situation of thistown—^Tomb»—Hot baths—River Jordan—Return to Nazareth and Acri—Seida—Advantages of French government, by having Frenchmen accreditedagents in the Levant—Beirutte—Suspicions of the aga there—Commerce—,Residence at the vice-consul's house.I FOUND it necessary to hasten my departure from Jerusalem,where the plague had showed itself, and the monks wereΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ