[Footnote 95:  A.M.  Lunez in his Year-book for 1881, pp. 71-165, gives a complete list of the reputed Jewish tombs in Palestine.  There are many records of the graves of Jewish worthies in our literature, but it is not easy to reconcile the different versions.  See Jacob ben Nethanel’s Itinerary given in Lunez’s Jerusalem, 1906, VII, p. 87.]

[Footnote 96:  Both BM. and R have [Hebrew:], whilst E and A have the faulty reading [Hebrew:].  The Seder Hadoroth has the same reading as E and A. Jehuda Halevi died about thirty years before Benjamin’s visit, and the question of the burial-place of our great national poet is thus finally settled.]

     [Footnote 97:  The common belief is that Simon the Just was
     buried near Jerusalem, on the road to Nablous, about a mile
     from the Damascus Gate.]

     [Footnote 98:  Cf.  Schechter’s Saadyana, p. 89.]

     [Footnote 99:  The passage referring to the Arnon is
     evidently out of place.]

     [Footnote 100:  See Deut. xi. 24.]

[Footnote 101:  For a description of the city and its great mosque, see Baedeker, also Guy Le Strange, Palestine under the Moslems, chap. vi.  The most eastern dome of the mosque is to this day called Kubbet-es-Saa, the Dome of Hours.  Mukaddasi gives an elaborate description of the mosaics and other features of this mosque.]

     [Footnote 102:  Cf. Midrash Raba, chap, xiv:  [Hebrew:];
     also Josephus, Ant.  I, vii, 2 who quotes Nicolaus of
     Damascus in the words “In Damasco regnarit Abramus.”]

     [Footnote 103:  Pethachia estimates the Jewish population at
     19,000.  This confirms the opinion already given (p. 26) that
     Benjamin refers to heads of families.]

[Footnote 104:  Dr. W. Bacher with justice observes that, at the time of the Crusades, the traditions of the Palestinian Gaonate seem to have survived at Damascus.  See J.  Q.R., XV, pp. 79-96.]

[Footnote 105:  Galid as a city cannot be identified.  Salchah is in the Eastern Hauran, half a day’s journey from Bosra, and is spoken of in Scripture as a frontier city of Bashan.  (Deut. iii. 10; Joshua xii. 5.) It lies a long way to the south of Damascus, whilst Baalbec lies to the north.]

     [Footnote 106:  Tarmod is Tadmor or Palmyra.]

[Footnote 107:  The important city Emesa, now called Homs, is here probably indicated.  In scripture, Gen. x. 18, the Zemarite and the Hamathite are grouped together among the Canaanite families.  In this district is the intermittent spring of Fuwar ed-Der, the Sabbatio River of antiquity, which Titus visited after the destruction of Jerusalem.  Josephus (Wars of the Jews,