collection of Phoenician glass. Near by is the hammam built by Jezzar, the finest Turkish Bath in Palestine.
About half a mile to the east of the walls is Tel al-Fukhar, where King Richard pitched his tent in 1190–1; from this place Napoleon directed operations in 1799. About one mile to the north-east is the village of Menshieh, where was the French Camp, and close by are the orange gardens of Baghché and the tombs of Bahaʾuʾllah and Sir Abbas Effendi ʾAbduʾl Baha. Across the plain to the north can be traced the aqueduct—rebuilt by Jezzar and ʾAbdallah, probably on the ruins of a Roman aqueduct—conveying the water a distance of 8 miles into Acre. To the north-east on the hillside can be seen the late Arab castle of Jeddin, and to the north the white cliff of Ras al-Nakura (the boundary between Palestine and Syria) and the beginning of the "Ladder of Tyre." The beautiful Wadi Qurn, well wooded and with a strongly flowing stream, deserves a visit, together with the ruins of the Crusaders' castle of Montfort (Qalaʾat Qurein). This castle of Mons Fortis was begun in 1229 by Hermann von Salza, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, and was the principal stronghold of the Order in Palestine. It was destroyed by Bibars.
Acre is connected with Haifa by a narrow-gauge railway, which crosses the rivers Kishon (Nahr Mugqatta) and Belus (Nahr Naʾmein). The latter provided and still provides the murex, from which the Phoenicians extracted the famous Tyrian purple; and Pliny records that glass was made from its exceptionally fine sand.
There is a local prophecy to the effect that when the waters of the river Belus reach the east gate of Acre the English will take the town. This possibility arose from the fact that Belus changes his course every year. In 1910 the river approached so close to the gate that, in view of the prophecy, the Turkish authorities became anxious. Numbers of sheep were publicly sacrificed on the spit of land between the river and the gate, and that winter Belus moved himself away from the walls.
Nazareth (al-Nasira).—No mention of Nazareth, where
