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Adamnan's De Locis Sanctis (Author: Adamnan of Iona)

Chapter/toc 25

CONCERNING CAPHARNAUM

Travellers from Jerusalem who wish to go to Capharnaum, as Arculf relates, take the straight road through Tiberias, then along by the lake
10] of Cinereth, which is also the sea of Tiberias and the sea of Galilee. They use the place of the blessing, mentioned above, as a thoroughfare by means of which, along the brink of the lake already mentioned, they reach Capharnaum by a fairly short circuit. It is on the lake shore, in the territory of Zabulon and Neptalim. As Arculf relates (he saw it from
15] the neighbouring mountain) the city has no wall; but, confined as it is between the mountain and the lake, stretches for a considerable distance along the seashore, and runs from west to east, with the mountain to the north and the lake to the south.