 Edward Robinson visited in 1838 , and noted that the khan , which Maundrell commented on , was for the accommodation of the caravans passing on the great road between Egypt and Damascus which Lajjun comes over the hills from the western plain along the coast and enters that of Esdraelon . When the British consul James Finn visited the area in the mid @-@ 19th century , he did not see a village . The authors of the Survey of Western Palestine also noticed a khan , however , south of the ruins of Lajjun in the early 1880s . 
