a town of Galilee in Palestine, stands on the western side of a narrow oblong valley, about 6 miles W.N.W. from Mount Tabor. Before the Christian era it seems to have been a paltry uninteresting village. It is not mentioned even once either in the Old Testament or in Josephus; and it is probable that it was the insignificance of the town itself, rather than the bad repute of its inhabitants, that prompted the exclamation of Nathanael, "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?" But the fact that our Saviour passed his youth and early manhood within its humble precincts, invested it with an interest which it has ever since retained, and which it will still retain as long as a single trace of its existence remains. It is now a well-built town, consisting of flat-roofed Nazarite stone houses, and standing conspicuous amid a neighbourhood fertile with fig-trees, olive-trees, vineyards, and cornfields. The chief objects of interest in the town are the localities which are pointed out as the scenes of some of the events in our Lord's history, and the richly-decorated church of the monastery erected over a grotto which is supposed to contain the kitchen and fire-place of the Virgin. There is also shown the synagogue in which our Saviour expounded the Scriptures. About 2 miles from Nazareth stands the "Mount of Precipitation," which, as its name implies, is supposed to be the height from which he was about to be thrown by his fellow-townsmen. But how the credulous monks identify this precipice with the hill mentioned in Scripture as that "whereon the city was built," it is difficult to understand. The population of Nazareth is about 3000, of whom the majority are Christians of various denominations, and the rest are Mohammedans.