name, he looked continually in my face, and said, Yes, I will give you letters; you will not find many Samaritans, but the Lord does not consider the number, he considers those who love him, and keep his commandments. God blessed Ishmael, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him exceedingly, and he begat twelve princes, and made him a great nation; but he established with Isaac his covenant, and the Lord drove Hagar out of the house of Abraham. He gave Isaac to eat of the manna which was endowed with the tastes of the best fruits of several kinds. I. We do not find the latter observation in the book of Moses.

Israel. I have told you from the beginning, that the book of Moses contains many hidden things, but not every one enters into the depth of them.

I have observed that the Samaritans, notwithstanding their rejection of the Talmud, have adopted notions from that book; as, for instance, that an angel appeared to Joseph, and of the several tastes the manna was endowed with; fables taken out of rabbinical books. Or, perhaps, the Rabbies have taken those notions from the Samaritans, I continued to ask him,

I. Have you still sacrifices?

Israel (with a joyful countenance). Yes, we sacrifice once every year an animal, on the feast of Passover, and we have a high-priest from the family of Aaron.

Poor Samaritans, no fire comes down from heaven to receive your sacrifice, it is no longer a sweet-smelling savour unto the Lord. Come to that High-Priest after the order of Melchisedek, who in the days of his flesh, offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared. Poor Samaritans, I shall have many things to say of him to you, on my arrival at Naplus. Dear Samaritan brethren! turn your eyes to that High-Priest, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens,

who did once offer up a sacrifice for the people's sins, when he offered up himself.

Israel (continued). I still could tell you more of the mount Gerizim, which was blessed, and mount Ebal, which was cursed, but you will be well informed at Naplus; but I must ask thee a question, my lord.-We received, some years ago, a letter by the way of Aleppo, which was written in France, by two gentlemen; the name of the one was Gragier, but I have forgotten the name of the other. I. What did they write to you?

Israel. They asked us deep questions, and among others, they asked us the reason of our having given up the trial to seek every year for such and such an ox? Dost thou know, my lord, whether Gragier, and the other whose name I do not remember, reside in a city called Paris?

I. Gragier is, most probably, Monsieur Gregoire, and the other, perhaps, Sylvestre de Sacy. I could not understand the description of the ox, nor was Mr. Joseph Damiani, who interpreted, as often as I wanted a word, able to explain to me the meaning of it. I hope to enquire at Naplus; for that kind Samaritan gives me letters for Naplus, so that I shall have a lodging in the house of a Samaritan Jew.

On my return to the house of Mr. Damiani, Assaid Ahya Effendi, formerly commander of the castle of Jaffa, and now residing at Jerusalem, a Mussulman, entered the room of the Consul. As I had with me the Arabic New Testament translated by Sabat, I showed it to him, and desired him to read something in it, and tell me his observations about it. He read attentively the genealogy of Matthew, and he exclaimed suddenly, I observe a great error !!

I. Be so kind as to show me the error.

He showed me Matt. i. 24, and said, " And took unto him his wife:" this is not true, for Jesus was not the son of Joseph the Nabi (prophet).

The following verse answers your difficulty, knew her not, till she had brought forth, &c."

"And he

Assaid Ahya Effendi. Then the word wife, is not well chosen, he ought to have said bride. The second error he found was, that Matthew ought not to have said, Joseph was a just man; but that he was a Nabi, (prophet).

He gave me a letter of introduction to a learned Mussulman at Jerusalem, whose name is Said Effendi, who will give me lessons in Arabic.

Dec. 30.-Israel, the Samaritan, called on me again, and gave me a letter of introduction to his relatives at Naplus, the ancient Sichem. I asked whether they had the book of Joshua; he told me that they are only in possession of the history of Joshua, but the book itself is lost. I asked further, what do you think about the character of those men, whom Jews and Christians consider as prophets?

Israel. Those persons have been the cause that the schism among the Jews has become stronger and stronger, and the enmity from the times of Joseph established for ever. Ali, an old man, called by the Jews Elijah, came to the king of Samaria, who was a young man, and he (Ali) thought himself not sufficiently honoured by the young king, and therefore went about and exasperated the minds of the people against their king.— Certainly, that was not the reason Elijah grieved, but rather that Ahaziah enquired of Beelzebub, as if there was not a God in Israel.

After the conversation with him, I mounted the ass, and left Jaffa, the ancient Joppa, where Cornelius the centurion, whose prayers and alms were come up for a memorial before God, sent two of his household servants and a devout soldier to Peter, who went upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour, and having fallen into a trance, he saw heaven opened, and was taught that, what God had cleansed cannot be called common; and he went from thence to Cornelius at Cesarea, who desired to hear

words of him, to hear all things that had been commanded unto Peter of God; and there it was, that Peter perceived that God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. (Acts x.)

After three hours' journey, I came out of the land of the Philistines, who often troubled my brethren.

Toma, a Christian, from Jaffa, met with us on the way, as we were entering the spot called Galilee. He was well versed in the holy history. I told him that he should go with me to Acre, to tell me the names of the places. I was now entering into the land of promise, that land where my Saviour walked in bodily shape, where he did signs and wonders. In short, I arrived at the haven of the sea, where Zebulon dwelt, and Naphtali, a hind let loose, which the Lord first lightly afflicted, and afterwards more grievously afflicted by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. And the people which sat in darkness, saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light sprung up. The Light, Jesus, the Lord of all, the incarnate Deity! From thence, I came to the ruins of Cesarea Philippi, the ruins of a church where owls dwell. There lived Cornelius, whose prayers and alms came up as a memorial before God. (Acts x. 4.)

Jan. 1, 1822.-We passed mount Carmel. Here Baal's prophets cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner, with lances, till the blood gushed out, and when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded. And Elijah repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down; and said unto all the people, Come near unto me, and all the people came near unto him. And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name; and at the time of the offering of the

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evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day, that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me! that these people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt-sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces, and they said, The Lord he is God, the Lord he is God. 1 Kings xviii.

I arrived, finally, at St. Jean d'Acre, and was very well received by Peter Abbott, Esq. British Consul of this place. He gave me an account of two Jewish converts ; the name of the one is E., a tapet maker, and cantor of the synagogue, and the name of the other is A.: they have been secretly baptized, and continue outwardly to be Jews, and to go to the synagogue.

Peter Abbott, Esq. introduced me to the Rev. Jacob Berggren, clergyman of the Swedish ambassador at Constantinople. I knew him at Alexandria. That gentleman, a true believer of Christ, travelled at the expence of the Swedish government, through the whole of Palestine and Syria. He found upon mount Lebanon, the book of the law of the Druses, and he discovered likewise, a fine pit of coals, and a rock which contained beautiful diamonds. He is now going back to Constantinople, and a year hence he is to continue his journey to Persia at the expence of the king of Sweden. We prayed together, and if the Lord pleaseth, we shall correspond with each other.

Jan. 2.-E., baptized by the Rev. Melchior Tschudy, called on me to-day, and was introduced to me by Mr. Abbott. I had a long conversation with him, and there is no doubt of his sincerity; although poor, he never desired a farthing of Mr. Abbott, and he has read the New Testament so thoroughly, that he knows much of it