Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria : delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800 / by F.B. Spilsbury, of His Majesty's Ship, Le Tigre, surgeon in that expedition during both campaigns.

  • Spilsbury, F. B. (Francis B.)
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Picturesque scenery in the Holy Land and Syria : delineated during the campaigns of 1799 and 1800 / by F.B. Spilsbury, of His Majesty's Ship, Le Tigre, surgeon in that expedition during both campaigns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    riencing any effect from the contact, but the moment she was placed on the cross of our Saviour, she became whole. After having been shewn every thing worthy of notice in the Church of the Sepulchre, we made a visit to the Armenian convent, the chapel of which, for richness of decoration, surpassed every thing that we had seen. The pillars are faced with china, and many of the interior parts are inlaid with tortoise-shell, and mother-o'pearl. We next visited the Greek convent, and then that of the Carmelite monks, at which we saw a great number of casks, containing not less than a thousand gallons each, of most excellent wine. The Coptic convent was the next object of our attention: it is a miserable place, and presented nothing worthy of remark.. We returned thence to dine with our friends, the Franciscans. It would be the height of ingrati- tude not to mention the hospitable and generous manner in which we were received at the Armenian, Carmelite, and Greek convents: the instant that we entered, sweetmeats, wine, brandy, pipes, and coffee, were brought, and at our departure from each, frankincense, &c. was burnt before us,