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told , was " on the brow of the hill on which the city Avas built . " AVe now start for Haifa , and get a magnificent view from the heights above the town , whence Ave see Carmel , Hermon , Tabor and the wide plain of Esdraelon . We ride through

some very prettily Avooded country , but Avhich is utterly neglected , and we emerge , at the N . W . end of Esdraelon , which here is quite uncultivated , though no one can pass through it without noticing the extreme fertility of the soil . Some

marshy places are troublesome to cross . Sweeping round the North side of Carmel ( the top of which was the scene of Elijah ' s sacrifice ) , we cross the brook Kishou , whither he brought the 850 defeated prophets of Baal , and " slew them there . "

How red the little stream must have run that day , nor could it have been full then , for after the slaughter the prophet went up to the brow of

Carmel to pray for rain . Just Avas the punishment of these lying prophets , deceivers of the people , with their pretended poAver , and sham miracles ; yet , they had not the advantage of being born in Christian times , when the Gospel is

preached to all people ; and shall not God furnish the priests of the present day , who , Avith their false fables , and miracles ( as Avith the Latins ) or pretended fire from heaven ( as with the Greeks ) lead ignorant and superstitious people astray ; and

Avho , by gorgeous and costly pageantry , and idolatrous " sacrifice , " in place of the peaceful , loving supper of our Lord , strive by appealing to the sensual feelings of the people , to add to the number and political power of their church ? and

Avhat shall be said of those wolves in sheeps' clothing , who Avould fain engraft these practices on the services of our comparatively pure ( though like all things human , of necessity , imperfect church ?

Riding on , over level ground covered tvith wild flowers and long grass , ivhera the bees hum about us in such numbers that Ave seem for miles to be perpetually in the midst of a swarm , Ave come at length in sight of the fleet at anchor off Haifa .

Acre is seen on the other side the bay . Near Haifa are considerable orchards interspersed with palm trees . Tho first thing we come to is the cemetery , with Turkish Avoinen mourning amonothe graves ; then we pass under a crumbling old gateway , close to which is a tremendous hole in

the wall , made by one of our shot when Ave bombarded Acre and this place . Of all dirty , uninteresting places , I think this is the worst . There

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is no attempt at making a landing-place or pier , and bales of cotton are being carried , each by some fifteen men , out in the shalloAv water to lighters . Dirty JeAvs , Arabs , and Turks loiter about the landing-place . All shout , SAvear and quarrel ,

apparently about nothing , and with no result . Right glad am I when a boat comes to convey me once more to the " Cupid " and well do I sleep that night in my comfortable berth , after so many nights' camp . At five next morning we get under

- > veigh for Beyrout , and arrive there about twelve * The rest of the fleet do not arrive till past 7 a . m . ( To be continued . )

Masonic Jottings.—No. 2.

MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No . 2 .

BY A PAST PROVINCIAL GKAND MASTER . BEO . HEETZVOELD ' LECTUEE . Bro . Hertzvoeld ' s lecture on the origin of Freemasonry , & c , respecting which a correspondent inquires , is in Dutchand consists of 19 pages duodecimo .

, There is a translation into German in the Annual Communications of the Union of Geruiau Freemasons . Bro . Findel calls the lecture very interesting , diligent ,, and important . He observes that there are some corresponding members of the Union in England and

Scotland , and adds , he doubts not a translation into English will he furnished for the " Freemason's Magazine . "

THE APPELLATION , " ACCEPTED MASONS . " According to Bro . Findel , the non-operative Masons admitted to the lodges early in the 17 th century were distinguished from the operative Masons by the appellation of " Accepted Masons . "

THE GEAETING- , 1717-The transformation of 1717 has been often called The Grafting . The metaphor seems not inappropriate ? operative Masonry being the stock , and speculative Masonry the young scion ; and pursuing the metaphor ?

two questions are asked—1 st , "Who was " the Grand Old Gardener . " Some one will say , Ashmole ; others , will say , Desaguliers ; next , from Avhat tree , British or foreign , was the scion taken .

THE GEBMAKT TUEOEY AND THE BUCHAN THEOET . According to the German theory , the transformation of operative Masonry , 1717 , was effected in part by the spirit of the age and the tendency of literature in general . According to the Buchan theory , the

doctrines and ideas stirred up by the Reformation were in that famous year taken hold of and made into speculative Masonry .