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REMAINS OF GERIZIM.
[CHAP. XX.
Nabuius. and Gerizim is Nabulus, the capital of Samaria, 1 the Neapolis
of the Romans, and Sichem or Sychar of Scripture. 2 The city
is long and narrow, and has but two streets; it contains about
2000 Muslim inhabitants, some Christians and Jews, with a
few Samaritans ; 3 and it is prettily situated amidst orchards,
streams, and vegetable gardens. The houses are of stone,
lofty, and well built, particularly in the Samaritan quarter.
Ruins at Jebei- A little northward of the town, at the foot of Mount Ebal,
there are many sepulchral excavations, and on its summit are
other ruins ; but it has lately been ascertained 4 that the re
mains on Jebel-el-Tur or Gerizim are sufficiently extensive to
represent the towers and temple which once occupied the
summit of this mountain, 5 At the eastern extremity of the
valley is the tomb of Joseph, the field of Jacob, and the well
of the Samaritan woman; the last is now dry. Ancient
Gerizim 6 is richer than Ebal, and is the more distant of the
two ; 7 and the southern part of the intervening space contains
the remnant of the Cutheans, 8 who were brought thither by
Shalmanasar. They have in their possession a copy of the
Pentateuch 3460 years old, which, they say, was found in a
hole on the top of Gerizim. 9
Remains of On the coast westward of Nabulus, about the estuary of the
Apoiionia. Nahr-el-Hadhr, are the remains of Arsuf, once Apollonia; 10
and about 15 miles S.S.W. from thence is Joppa, now called
1 Edrisi, tome V., p. 339, Recueil de Voyages, &c. 2 John, IV., v. 5.
3 This is said to be the only place in which the ancient Saheans are now to
be found.—Edrisi, p. 339, tome V., Recueil, &c; there are, however, some in
Mesopotamia; see above, pp. Ill and 112.
4 MS. Notes of Lieut.-Col. M'Niven.
5 Deut. chap. XXVII.; according to the Samaritan version. Jos., Ant., lib.
XII., chap, viii., sec. 6 and 7; also lib. V., cap. L, s. 19. The Samaritans
offered sacrifices and burnt-offerings in their synagogue on Mount Gerizim.—
Benjamin of Tudela. By A. Asher, vol. I., p. 66.
6 Notes by Lieut.-Col. M'Niven.
7 Ibid.; see also Plate No. XXIV., Ndbulus.
8 Called Samaritans, Benjamin of Tudela; vol. I., p. 66.
9 Lieut.-Col. M'Niven, MS. Notes. Also compare Irby and Mangles'
Travels, p. 339, with Maundrell's Journey, p. 54 (Rivington, London, 1832) ;
and Jos., Ant., lib. V., cap. i., s. 19.
10 Reland Pal., p. 513, and Dr. Robinson's Biblical Researches, &c.; vol.
III., p. 46.