Note 549 — A JOURNEY FROM ALEPPO TO JERUSALEM, (continued 2)
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Acre has gained a new celebrity by the events of which it has been the scene in more recent times. Most of the ruins described by Maundrell have disappeared to make place for modern buildings; and the population, said to have been not more than 300 or 400 in the seventeenth century, is now estimated at above 20,000. [549]