These glimpses increase the awe which inspires the traveller when he considers on what ground he is wandering, and whither he is bending his steps.

Every step we now take leads us past places of religious importance; every ruin, every fragment of a fortress or tower, above which the rocky walls rise like terraces, speaks of eventful times long gone by.
An uninterrupted ride of five hours over very bad roads, from the entrance of the mountain-range, added to the extreme heat and total want of proper refreshment, suddenly brought on such a violent giddiness that I could scarcely keep myself from falling off my horse.

Although we had been on horseback for eleven hours since leaving Joppa, I was so much afraid that Mr.B.would consider me weak and ailing, and perhaps change his intention of accompanying me from Jerusalem back to Joppa, that I refrained from acquainting him with the condition in which I felt myself.

I therefore dismounted (had I not done so, I should soon have fallen down), and walked with tottering steps beside my horse, until I felt so far recovered that I could mount once more.

Mr.B.had determined to perform the distance from Joppa to Jerusalem (a sixteen hours' ride) at one stretch.