{109} According to the Talmud, private roads were made four cubits wide; public roads sixteen cubits; but the approaches to a city of refuge were thirty-two cubits in width. See Lightfoot's "Decas Chorographica," VII. Latitudo viarum Tradunt Rabini. Via privata [Hebrew text] est quatuor cubitorum--via ab urbe in urbem est octo cubitorum--via publica [Hebrew text] est sedecm cubitorum--via ad civitates refugii est triginta duorum cubitorum." Bava Batra fol., 100 From Lightfoot's "Centuria Chorographica." "Synhedrio incubuit vias ad civitates hasee accommodare eas dilatando, atque omne offendiculum in quod titubare aut impingere posses amovendo. Non permissus in via ullus tumulus aut fluvius super quem non esset pons erat que via illuc ducens ad minimum 32 cubitorum lata atque in omni bivio, aut viarum partitione scriptum erat [Hebrew text] _Refugium_ ne eo fugiens a via erraret."--Maimon in [Hebrew text] cap. 8. {110} On visiting Kadis some years after, I was grieved to find all this much demolished, and the ornamentation taken away, by Ali Bek, to adorn the new works at his castle of Tibneen. {111} Since fallen almost to the ground. {131a} [Greek text]. {131b} [Greek text]. {133} I have been there three times, twice late in autumn, and once in July, and always found water abundant. {136} Since writing the above I have seen the photograph taken of this temple by the Palestine explorators in 1866. {149} I do not find this place in any lists or books of travels. {155} Since that journey I have been told by the country people that between Gaza and Beersheba it is the practice to sow wheat very thinly indeed, and to expect every seed to produce thirty to fifty stalks, and every stalk to give forty seeds. {182} In a journey to Gaza from Hebron, in the spring season of 1853, I was proceeding from the great oak down a long valley--but I was induced to deviate from the direct line by the tidings of _Bait Jibreen_ being infested or taken by the Tiyahah Arabs. We everywhere found the peasantry armed, and on arriving before _Dair Nahhaz_, almost within sight of that town, and communicating with the village for water to drink, as I rested under a tree, Mohammed 'Abd en Nebi sent me word that Bait Jibreen was recovered from the Arabs, and now occupied by themselves; that thirty-five corpses of Arabs were lying round Bait Jibreen, and one of the two Arab chiefs (Amer) was slain--he himself was wounded in the knee. From hence to Gaza we passed _Zeita_, where a breastwork had been hastily thrown up by the peasantry, and into which a number of armed men rushed from a concealment, and parleyed before they would allow us to pass on. Then to _Falooja_, and between _Idsaid_ and _Karatiyah_ on our right, and the Arak Munshiyah on the left. Halted at Brair for the night. The return from Gaza was by Ascalan, Mejdal, Julis, the two Sawafeers, Kasteeneh, Mesmiyeh, and Latron, on the Jaffa road to Jerusalem.