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with a full Proipedt of the Sea, and was called by the Antients 

 Laodicea ad mare ', and Aiu^^si Aktvi^ from the white Cliffs that 

 lye on each Side of it. From the Cittadel, we have a plea- 

 fant, though diftant View of the Mountains of C<«r^;w^;?i<3;, and 

 CaJJius to the North ; and of JeVilee^ Merhal•, Bannias and 

 Tortofa to the South. The Founder could not have pitched 

 upon a more agreeable Situation, affording at the fame Time, 

 Delight and Security. 



The Ruim of Hcrc arc ftill remaining feveral Rows of Torphyry, and Gra- 

 nate Pillars ; with a large Fragment of an Aquedu6t, the fame 

 perhaps that, as Jofephus ^ informs us, was built by Herod. It 

 is a maify Structure without Arches, and ftretches towards the 

 S.E. But the chief furviving Monument of the antient Grandeur 

 and Magnificence of this Place, is a large triumphal Arch, 

 fupported by Pillars of the Corinthian Order, which they have 

 converted at prefent into a Mofque. The Architrave is adorn- 

 ed with Trophies, Shields, Battle-Axes, and other military 

 Weapons, whilft the refl of the Entablature is exceeding bold 

 and fumptuous. We fee diiperfed all over thefe Ruins, feveral 

 Fragments both of Greek and Latin Infcriptions, but they were 

 all of them fo miferably defaced, that it would have been to 

 little Purpofe to have copied them. 



The cothon. A Furlong to the Weftward of the Town, are the Ruins of 

 a beautiful Cothon , built in the Figure of an Amphitheatre, 

 and capacious enough to receive the whole Britiflj Navy. The 

 Mouth of It, opens to the Weftward, being about forty Foot 

 wide, and defended by a fmall Caftle. The whole appears to 

 have been a Work and Structure of great Labour and Defign, 

 though, at prefent, it is filled up to that Degree with Sand 

 and Pebbles, that half a dozen fmall \^eirels are all that can 

 conveniently be admitted at one Time. The like Accidents, ari- 

 iing chiefly from the large Billows that attend the wefterly 

 Storms, have intirely ruined the Cothon of Jehilee, That a little 

 to theNorthward oiTortoJa, Thofe oiRou-waddeJ^ripolypjre, 

 Acre and Jaffa. At all thefe Places, we cannot fufficiently 

 admire the great Induftry and Contrivanceof the Antients, in 



I E/7tt ΛαοΛχΗΛ, fin τ? θ«λάττ;ΐ κάίλ/ξκ (KTUfj^x ngj^ iuM/j^Qi' Tii^is, y^£fY τί t;^y!w "τη^.Μίνον ti&< th 

 hxvi itiitg.f7n<t. Strab. Gcogr. I. i6. p. 109 1. Exclufus ab Aittioch'u Dolabella ** Laodiceam 

 quae eft, in Syria, ad mare, fe contulir. C'lc. Epift. 1. 12. Ε p. 14. 



AaoJ'ixi))' θ' « K«7iu ίτ' «locfoj-/ θαλά»3)(ί . Dionyf. Perieg. 1. pij. 

 2 Λ«Λ«&ίίίΐ i) ms 'S^jtM'o/i, CjUTut fiim-)ay>ir "* i/t^Ki. Jof, de Bell. Jud. 1. I, cap. 16. 



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