History of Dor. 115 



Volensque per Caesaveam reclire, accidit quod in loco, qui dicitur 

 Petva Incisa', iuxta antiquam Tyrum", inter Capharnaum^ et Doram, 

 oppida maritima, qui locus hodie Districtum'' appellatur, praedones 

 et viarum publicarum effractores invenit. Etc. etc. 



This same wi'iter again makes incidental reference to Dor in liis 

 account of the fruitless siege of Tyre in the year 1111, as follows^: 



Est autem Tj^rus civitas in corde maris sita, in modum insulae 

 circumsepta pelago, caput et metropolis provinciae Phoenicis, quae 

 a rivo Valeniensi, usque ad Petram Incisam, Dorae conterminam", 

 protenditur ; infra sui ambitum, urbes suffraganeas continens 

 quatuordecim. 



In none of these instances cited is mention made of any settle- 

 ment or fortress at Dor. Nothing is said concerning the town that 

 could not be gathered from ancient literary sources. Benedict's 

 statement' above to the effect that some of the towns he mentions 

 were deserted or destroyed was quite probably true of Dor at this 

 time. If a town named Dor had existed at this period we should 

 certainly have expected some reference to the name in the account 

 of Richard's march down the coast in 1191". Apparently these 

 historians of the Crusades knew of the existence and location of 

 Dor, not from personal observation or through the accounts of 

 those who had visited the place, but from ancient Biblical and 

 geographical notices. We are, accordingly, uninformed regarding 

 the real status of Dor at this time. 



^According to Conder (P.E.F., Spec. Pap., p. 375), "The old name for 

 Khirbet Dustrey, the outlying fort of 'Atblit, is Petra Incisa (The Scarped 

 Rock)." The name is probably derived from the passage through the rocky 

 ridge near 'Athlit. — See also the notes on geography in Recueil, Hist. Occi- 

 dent., I, Part I, p. XXVI. 



- Also known as St. John of Tyre : Michelaut et Raynaud, Itineraires 

 Francais, pp. 229 (Pelrinages et Pardouns de Acre), 901 (Les Pelerinaiges 

 por aler en Iherusaleni). 



^ See below, pp. 117 f. 



* Recueil, I. c. 



'•• Recueil, Hist. Occident., I, Part I, p. 482. 



"^ Probably nearer "Athlit than Dor. There are a number of these passages 

 through the ridge between Dor and 'Athlit. 



" P. 114. 



« See below, pp. 116 if. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XX. 9 1915. 



