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been conftantly kept up and propagated, in the very fame 

 Manner, we find it to have been in Egypt and Barhary. 

 The Rocks up- From the Vegetable Kingdom, let us pafs on to give an Ac- 

 7horTheZ count of fuch Rocks, Foifils, Fountains, Rivers, and Animals 

 "'"•^'^' ^""'• of thefe Countries, as are the moft remarkable. Now the 

 Rocks, in feveral Places upon the Coaft of Syria and Thoenice, 

 have been hollowed into a great Number of Troughs, two or 

 three Yards Long, and ofa proportionable Breadth, feeming to 

 have been originally intended for fo many Salt Works ; where, by 

 continually throwing in the Sea Water to evaporate, a large 

 Quantity of Salt would in Time be concreted. We fee feve- 

 ral of thefe Troughs at Latikea, Antaradus^ Tr'ipol/ and other 

 Places ; which at prefent, notwithftanding the Hardnefs of the 

 Rock, are moft of them worn fmooth, by the Waves continu- 

 ally daihing upon them. 

 The higher Abovc this Bcd of Hard Stone, in the Neighbourhood of 

 fuluywhil'e' Latikea, the Rocks are of a foft chalky Subftance , from 

 '^ndfofter. ^|^^^^^^ probably the adjacent City borrowed the Name of 

 (Aeom ά'χ,τ») The white Tromontory. The Nakoura, formerly 

 called the Scala Tyriorum, is of the fame Nature and Com- 

 plexion ; both of them including a great Variety of Corals, 

 Foffii f inies. Shells, and* other Remains of the Deluge. U pon the Caflravan 

 Mountains, above Barroute, there is another curious Bed like- 

 wife of whitiih Stone, of the Slate Kind, which unfolds, in 

 every Fleak of it , a great Number and Variety of Fiihes. 

 Thefe, for the moft Part, lye exceeding flat and compreft, like 

 the Foflil Fern Plants, yet are, at the fame Time, fo well 

 preferved, that the fmalleft Stroakes and Lineaments of their 

 Fins, Scales, and other fpecifical Diftindions, are eafily diftin- 

 guiilied. Among thofe that were brought to me from this 

 Place, I have a beautiful Specimen of the Squilla, which, 

 though the tendereft of the Cruflaceous Fiflies, yet hath not 

 fuftered the leaft Injury from Length of Time or other 

 Accidents. 

 Μοβ of the The greateft Part of the Mountains of Carmel, and of thofe 

 Hof;iand in the Neighbourhood of >ra>/iw and Bethlehem, are made 

 up of the like white chalky Strata. In the former we gather 

 a great many Stones, which being in theForm, as it is pretended, 

 of Olives, Melons, Peaches and other Fruit; are commonly 

 impofed upon Pilgrims, not only for fuch Curiofities, but as 



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