Jericho by Bonfils

Jericho was situated six miles from the River Jordan. It looked like the Garden of Eden to the Traveler, though its walls lay in ruins. The Traveler reports that the house of Rahab still stood in the town, though in his day it served as a hostel. The room where Rahab left the spies was dedicated to prayer to Saint Mary.
According to the Traveler, the large stones carried by the Israelites from the Jordan were to be found behind the altar of a basilica not far from the city of Jericho. In front of the basilica was a field that Jesus himself had sown. No one maintained the field any longer, the Traveler reported in amazement, but it continued to thrive untended. It was harvested in February and part of the crop used for the Easter communion ceremony. After the harvest it was plowed and harvested again, then plowed once more and left alone.
A spring whose water had been turned into freshwater by the prophet Elisha provided for the needs of all of Jericho. The Traveler reports that grape arbors grew around it, as did date trees whose fruit (which the Traveler took back home with him) weighed one pound each. He also saw a lemon tree with branches two feet long and two fingers thick producing fruit weighing forty pounds. Boxes full of the spot's grapes were sold on the Mount of Olives on Ascension Day, and on Pentecost grape juice was made from them and jugs of it offered to pilgrims. When the Traveler and his group left Jericho, coming opposite Jerusalem not far from the city, they saw the tree Zacchaeus climbed in order to see Jesus. The tree, enclosed in a prayer room, had grown out through the roof, but was dried up. When they left Jericho's gate and travelled west, they arrived at the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Traveler recalls that a dark cloud and the scent of sulphur wafted over this part of the country. He adds that whoever said that Lot's wife was getting smaller because of the animals who lick the salt were lying: she stood in much the same condition as ever.