[Footnote 65:  This name is applied to the Kishon, mentioned further on, celebrated in Deborah’s song (Judg. v. 21), but it is about five miles south of Acre, the river nearest to the town being the Belus, noted for its fine sand suitable for glass-making.  It is not unlikely that R. Benjamin alludes to the celebrated ox-spring of which Arab writers have much to say.  Mukkadasi writes in 985:  “Outside the eastern city gate is a spring.  This they call Ain al Bakar, relating how it was Adam—­peace be upon him!—­who discovered this spring, and gave his oxen water therefrom, whence its name.”]

[Footnote 66:  Gath-Hepher, the birthplace of Jonah, near Kefr Kenna, in the territory of Zebulon (Joshua xix. 13), is not here referred to, but the land of Hepher, I Kings iv. 10 is probably meant.]

     [Footnote 67:  In Benjamin’s time hermits, who eventually
     founded the Carmelite order of monks, occupied grottoes on
     Mount Carmel.]

[Footnote 68:  Benjamin travelled along the coast to Caesarea.  Mr. Guy Le Strange (Palestine under the Moslems, 1890, p. 477) writes:  “Tall Kanisah, or Al Kunaisah, the Little Church, is the mound a few miles north of Athlith, which the Crusaders took to be the site of Capernaum.”  Benjamin must have known very well that Maon, which was contiguous to another Carmel (referred to in Joshua xv. 55), belonged to Judah, and was not in the north of Palestine.  Here, as in the case of Gath and elsewhere, he quotes what was the hearsay identification current at the time he visited these places.  See an article by C.R.  Conder on “Early Christian Topography” in the Quarterly Statements of the Palestine Exploration Fund for 1876, p.16.  Cf. The Ancient Hebrew Tradition, by Prof.  Fr. Hommel, p. 243.]

[Footnote 69:  In the time of the Crusaders Gath was supposed to be near Jamnia, but nothing definite is known as to its site. (Baedeker, Handbook to Palestine and Syria, 1876, p. 317.)]

     [Footnote 70:  It lies between Caesarea and Lydda.  See
     Conder’s Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.  Munk’s Palestine
     might also be consulted with advantage.]

     [Footnote 71:  The tomb of St. George is still shown in the
     Greek church at Lydda.]

[Footnote 72:  Mr. A. Cowley in an article on the Samaritan Liturgy in J.  Q.R., VII, 125, states that the “House of Aaron” died out in 1624.  The office then went to another branch, the priest being called [Hebrew:], the Levite Cohon.  Cf.  Adler and Seligsohn’s Une nouvelle chronique Samaritaine. (Paris:  Durlacher, 1903.)]

     [Footnote 73:  The small square building known as Joseph’s
     tomb lies a short distance north of Jacob’s well, at the
     eastern entrance to the vale of Nablous.]

     [Footnote 74:  Cf.  Guy Le Strange, Palestine, 381, and
     Rapoport’s Note 166, Asher’s Benjamin, vol.  II, p. 87.]