24- Geographical Ohfervations 



ftances and Events, that are to fall out in the future Courfe 

 of their Lives. 

 o/Z'frCryptx fhe Sepulchral Chambers near Jehilee, Tortofa and the Ser- 

 "iiature. ' " pent ΈοΗπΙαΊπ, together with thofe that are commonly called the 

 Royal Sepulchres at Jerufaleniy are all of them exadly of the 

 fame Workmanfhip and Contrivance with the Crypt a oiLatikea. 

 And in one of the Chambers of the Royal Sepulchre s^Uiqxq is one 

 of the antient Sarcophagi remaining, which is of a Tarian-\a.Q 

 Marble, in the Fafliion of a Trunk, very elegantly carved all 

 over with Flowers, Fruit and Foliage. Inftead likewife of thole 

 long narrow Cells that are common in the other Crypt a ; fome 

 of thefe have feveral Benches only of Stone, placed one over 

 another, upon which the Coffins were placed. 

 paltus. The greateft Part of the Country betwixt Latikea and Jehilee 

 is ftony and mountainous ; but at the latter,we begin to enter up- 

 on a moft delightful Plain, that was formerly theNorthernLimit 

 of the Diftrid of the Aradians \ At the Mouth of the River 

 Mellecky fix Miles from Jebilee, the Sea forms Itfelf into a 

 fmall Bay , where we have the Ruins of an antient City, the 

 Taltus probably of the Antients : and a little to the E. N. E. of 

 thefe Ruins, there is a large fubterraneous Conduit, with a 

 Number of lefler ones detached from it , which ipreading them- 

 felves, for the Space of feveral Furlongs, through a Piece of low 

 marihy Ground, might have been the Drains that were for- 

 merly made ufe of to render it fit for Tillage. 

 Carne, or Seven Leagues to the S. hy W. of the River Melleck^ and a 

 «/AraXs^ little to the Northward oiTortofay are the Traces of a Cothon^ 

 with a fmall Pottery hard by It. Here probably was the an- 

 tient C/^rwe", as the Cothon Itfelf might be the Dock that Straho * 

 tells us belonged to the Aradians. Betwixt the Pottery and 

 Tortofa^ are the Cryptic that have been already taken Notice of. 

 Tortofa the Tortofa, οΐ 'De'ir-dofc as the Inhabitants call It, is very well 

 defcribed by Mr. Maundrell, though miftaken, 1 prefume, by 

 him and others, for Orthofia, which we are to look for a great 

 way to the Southward, upon the Confines of Syria and Thoenice. 

 For though Orthofia may indeed feem to have an eafy Tranfi- 

 tion into Tortofa, yet confidering there was at this Place a 

 large Convent, and two very Magnificent Chrifl'ian Churches, 



I E/T ( fc. a Gabala) «Λ ί ί^ h^<a'iuy ΊίακωΛ («ί^λίβ Βοώ. Phal. I. 4• cap. ji.) &c. Strah. 

 1. \6. p. 1093. 2 KiijiMO• 7Ϊ iwHoi"^ AfaJ"». Uf&itmty^t. Id, ibid. 



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