o^o Geographical Ohjern^ations 



ceive from that Quarter. There are no Traces to be met with 

 of any other Walls, than fuch as may be fuppofed to belong to 

 one and the fame City. This, I take Notice of, becaufc fome 

 antient Geographers' have obferved, that Tripoly \\2iS not oiie, 

 but three Cities, built at a Furlong s Diftance from each other. 

 The prefent That, which at this Time, is known by the Name of ΤήροΙγ, 

 Tripoiy. .^ ^^.^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^ Lcagues Diftance from the other, upon the 



Declivity of a Hill, that faceth the Sea. It enjoys a confidera- 

 ble Trade, arifing as well from It's own Manufadures in Silk 

 and Cotton, as from thofe that are continually brought hither 

 from Aleppo and Damajcus. I could obferve Nothing in the 

 City- Walls or Caftle,that could give either ofthem a Title to a 

 Greek or Roman Foundation, the Appearance of both being 

 altogether modern and Gothic. The greateft Rarity of this 

 Place, at prefent, is an Aqueduft, with it's Refervoirs, fome 

 of which, are twenty or thirty Foot high, and, by being placed 

 at proper Diftances in the Town, very conveniently fupply the 

 greateft Part of the Houfes, to their fecond and third Stories, 

 with Water. Over the Winces Bridge, which is the prin- 

 cipal Arch of the Aqueduot, there is an Efcutcheon charged 

 with what appears to be a Crofs-Crofslei: which being the 

 Bearing of the Family of Lorrain, may vouch perhaps for 

 the Tradition th^t it Wiis built by Godfrey of Bulloign. 

 At Bellmont , two Leagues to the Southward of Tripoiy, 

 there is a famous Convent of Greek Kalories founded by the 

 Croifades. We fee upon the fouthermoft Declivity of it, a 

 large Heap of Ruins, which might probably belong to the 



Trieris. antient Trieris; and betwixt Thefe and Tripoiy, is the fmall 



Calamos. Village Kalemony, the Calamos of Tltny. 



neFi>rtof I am not acquainted with that Part of Thcenice, which ly- 

 eth between Cape Greego, the 0s5 ^ζαςβ^-τη^ of Ttolemy, and Tyre. 

 At the latter of thefe Places, I viiited feveral Creeks and In- 

 lets, in Order to difcover what Provifion there might have 

 been formerly made for the Security of their Veflels. Yet, 

 notwithftanding that Tyre was the chief maritime Power of 

 this Country , I could not obferve the leaft Token of either 

 Cothon, or Harbour, that could have been of any extraordinary 

 Capacity. The coafting Ships indeed, ftill find a tolerable good 

 Shelter from the northern Winds, under the fouthern Shore, 



I Vid. UioL lit fupra. Tria fuerunt Gngulis inter fe Stadiis diftantia : locus ex numero 

 7>ί/>ο//χ dicitur. ?omf. MeU I. i. cap. 12. but 



Tyre 



