rooms look out upon the garden; but a portion of this walk only can be seen. The entrance to the garden is by the concealed passage before described, nearly under the travellers' rooms the small building to the right is the cemetery.

"The church is a fine simple solemn basilica, built in the time of Justinian, and is kept with the nicest care by the brethren.

"The service is described by a previous traveller as 'simple, dignified, and solemn, consisting in great part in the reading of the Gospels, with the touching responses and chants of the Greek ritual.' To me, it appeared impressive enough, without mummery, and the chants were very moving and devotional; the demeanour of the Superior seemed both dignified and serious. It was affecting to see some very old men come tottering in from a side-passage during the service, whose beards, long to their girdles, as they knelt down, swept the marble pavement, and who, after a brief but earnest prostration in prayer, withdrew; failing nature being apparently unequal to the fatigues of an entire service.

"After service, we proceeded from the church by a side-way to the refectory, an old vaulted room, represented in the annexed sketch. The wall at its extremity presents to the eye scriptural subjects in fresco, in a rude style and much discoloured below is a small altar. : From one side of this

to the other extremity stretches a long table, well polished and ancient, at which some generations of departed monks must have eaten, with ranges of seats, quaintly carved; while silver crucifixes hang at intervals from the pointed roof. The superior advancing to the head of the table, seated me beside him; the rest took their places below, and the picture of conventual life was to me complete. Before each was placed a loaf of bread, and a pewter spoon and plate; some dishes of the same material contained olives and vegetables; and oppo

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