Note 168 — BOOK IV.

See, for this procession, Baldric, bishop of Dol. lib. iv.; Accolte, lib. iv.; Albert d’Aix, lib. vi.; William of Tyre, lib. vii. It cannot be doubted that the leaders caused this procession to be made round Jerusalem, in order that the sight of so many places should arouse the enthusiasm of the Crusaders. We must regret that Tasso, who speaks of this procession, has scarcely said anything of the places the Christians visited; these details would have furnished poetical beauties, without in anything departing from the exactitude of history.