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which clefervccl a iriDre particular and curious infpc£lion. Their 
coad lay almoll due eait, or a httle inclining to the north 5 and 
on the left hand a ridge of hills extended for a great ipace, ibme- 
timcs about half an hour diftant from the road, and iometimes 
opening wider 3 thele hills ^vcre faid to abound in rich veins of 
levcral metals, and they llipplied all that vaft quantity of mar- 
ble, therennains whereof they had feen at Tadmor j to the right 
■hand there lay a very barren plain, perfedly bare, and icarcely 
any thing green to be leen therein, fave a few gourds 3 in about 
five hours and a half they came to a fountain near a village called 
Tarrecca. 
OBober 9, From Tarrecca they fet out early, and travelling 
K. E. or near that point, in feven hours they arrived at Soukney , 
the road was much like that of the precceding day, lying over a 
barren plain, only they had hills on both fides, and fometimes 
at the diilance only of half an hour from each otheK-3 the village 
has its name from the hot waters, which arc of the fame nature 
with thofe at T'adrnor. 
OBoher 10, Continuing their voyage dill to the N. E. or fome- 
thing more eafterly, it was but an caly ftage to another village 
callecl I'llhCy fo called from the goodneis of the waters, which not- 
withllanding were not fo very extraordinary 3 they had the tafte, 
and were doubtlefs tin£lured with the fame mineral with thofe of 
Soukney and Tadmor, tho' not fo ftrongly 3 this village is pleafant- 
]y fituated, and makes a good appearance as one approaches to it, 
the profpe6t beiug improved by a well built fteeple, on which 
the mofque adjoins, or rather the remains of a Chriftian church, 
being built with Ibme more beauty and art than are ufually found 
in Tlirkip fabricks. From hence they fet out in the afternoon, 
iind proceeded about 2 \ hours farther, and they pitched at a 
fountain, called Aliorne, but the water was not fit to be drank, 
being of the ikme nature with that of SoukucXy and almolt as 
warm. 
OEiober 11, From Jllrome they fet out about an hour and a 
half after midnight, directing their courfe more northerly 3 as loon 
as it became light, they found thcmlelves in a wild open deiart, 
the ground in ibme places being covered with a ibrt of ncath, and 
in others quite bare 3 nor had they travelled long after the fun 
was up, before they difcovcred ylrfoffdy by the help of a rifing 
p.round3 but it was after 10 o'clock before they reached it 3 and 
finding no water there, they were obliged to proceed forwards 
to the river iLupbrates^ which is four hours diflant fi"om it, 
Jt'foffa or as the Arabs call it Arfo-ffa Ew.ir, lecms to be the 
remains 
