in the Holy Land. 595 



and Contempt to the Οοήβϊα7ΐ Name, there was a Statue ereded 

 to Jupiter, over the Place of the Refurre&mi , another to 

 Verms upon Mount Cahary, and a third to Adonis at Beth- 

 lehem. All thefe continued, 'till Οοηβαηΐϊηβ the Great and 

 his Mother St. Helena, out of their great Efteem and Vene- 

 ration for Places fo irreligioufly prophaned, erected ov^er them 

 thofc magnificent Temples, which fubfift to this Day. An un- 

 interrupted SucceiTion, it may be prefumed, οϊ Chr'ifiians yxho 

 reiidcd at Jerufalem, or who ' were conftantly reforting thither 

 out of Devotion, w ould preferve the Names, not only of the 

 particular Places I have mentioned, but of others like wife that 

 are taken Notice of in the Hiftory of Our Saviour : fuch as are 

 the Pools of Bethefda, and S'lloam ; the Garden of Gethfemane •, 

 the Field of Blood ; the Brook Cearon\ &c. which have all 

 been well defcribed by our Countrymen Sandys and Maundrell 

 All that I can pretend to add, is to give the Reader, in one 

 View, the particular Situations of them. 



The Lot of the Tribe of Judah was nearly equal in Extent ^'i-"^'-^^'^^^- 

 to That of all the other Tribes; and being too much for them^Tnbe of'' 

 the Tribe οϊ Simeon had their Inheritance taken out of it \ It's 

 Southern Boundary * was to be from the Bottom of the Salt ^^^^^^ 

 Sea, all along by the Border oi Edom, to the River oi Egypt ^i^'-'soiakward 

 and the Mediterraneans^^.. Now as the River οϊ Egypt (from ^ 

 feveral Arguments that might be urged if there was Occaiion) 

 could be no other than the Teluftac Branch of the Nile, we may, 

 from thefe Geographical Circumilances, receive no fmall In- 

 ftrudions towards the right fettling the Northern Border of 

 the Land of Edom, and in Confequence thereof, the Defert of 

 Zin and Kadefj Barnea, which made a Part of it : all of them 

 Places, that feem not to have been hitherto well laid down by 

 Geographers. For the Extent and Situation oi Uxq Salt Sea' 

 being no lefs known, (at leail as far as concerns the prefent 

 Difquifition,) than the Eaftern Branch of the Kile, an imagi- 



ginta, in loco refiirrcdionis fimulacrum Jovis, in crucis rupe ftatua ex marmore Veneris a 

 gentibus pofita colebatur, exiftimantibus perfecutionis audoiibus, quod toUcrcnt nobis 

 fidcm rclLirredionis & crucis, fi loca Sancta per idola poliuiirent. Bethlehem nunc noltriim 

 & auguftiifimam orbis locum, de quoPfalmifta canit, Veritas de Terra orta eft, lucus inum- 

 brabat Thdriiui., i. e. Adonid'is; & in fpccu, ubi quondam Chriftus parvulus vagiit, J^eneiis 

 Amafius plangebacur. Hieron. Ep. xiii. ad Patdin. Eitfeb. de Vita Confiant. 1. 3. cap. 2j. 

 2 Longum elt • nunc ab afccnfu Domini ufque ad prsfentcm diem per iingulas cetates currere, 

 qui Epifcoporum, qui Martyrum, qui eloquentium in dodrina Ecclefiaftica virorum vcne- 

 rint Hieroiolymam, putantes fe minus rcligionis, minus habere fcientice, nifi in illisChriftum 

 adorallcnt locis, de quibus prinaum livangclium de patibulo corufcaverat. tTieron. Ep. 17. 

 ad Mitrcell. 3 Jofi- '9• 9- 4 Numb. 34. 3, 4, 5•. ^φ- I J• 1, 2> 3, 4• 5 Commonly 

 called thQyJfphaltic Lake or Dead Sea. ' Ρ Ρ p Ο Χ nar V 



