[129] Pausanius, describing the Sepulchre of Helena at Jerusalem, mentions this device: "It was so contrived that the door of the sepulchre, which was of stone, and similar in all respects to the sepulchre itself, could never be opened except upon the return of the same day and hour in each succeeding year. It then opened of itself by means of the mechanism alone, and after a short interval closed again. Such was the case at the time stated; had you tried to open it at any other time, you would not have succeeded, but broken it first in the attempt." Paus. in Arcad. cap. xvi.—Clarke's Travels, vol. iv. p. 383.
[130] Journey, p. 63.
[131] Deut. xi. 29, 30.
[132] "Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's Well was there."—John iv. 5, 6.
[133] Travels, vol. iv. p. 264.
[134] Clarke, vol. iv. p. 275.
[135] Clarke, vol. iv. p. 280.
[136] Richardson, vol. ii. p. 415.
[137] Travels in Palestine, &c. by J.S. Buckingham, vol. ii. p. 144.
[138] Travels in Palestine, vol. ii. p. 104.