7.] [Footnote 3: Mark viii.10.Comp.Matt.xv.

39.] [Footnote 4: In the place named _Khorazi_ or _Bir-kerazeh_, above Tell-Houm.] [Footnote 5: The ancient hypothesis which identified Tell-Houm with Capernaum, though strongly disputed some years since, has still numerous defenders.

The best argument we can give in its favor is the name of _Tell-Houm_ itself, _Tell_ entering into the names of many villages, and being a substitute for _Caphar_.

It is impossible, on the other hand, to find near Tell-Houm a fountain corresponding to that mentioned by Josephus (_B.J._, III.x.

8.) This fountain of Capernaum seems to be Ain-Medawara, but Ain-Medawara is half an hour's journey from the lake, while Capernaum was a fishing town on the borders of the lake (Matt.iv.