Of the Weft em Trovince. 5p 



A ftrong Wall, forty Foot high, lupported with Buttrefles, 

 and winding Itfelf near two Miles through the feveral Creeks 

 of the Sea Shore, hath fecured It from all Encroachments from 

 the Sea. The City, to the Diftance of two Furlongs from This 

 Wall, lyeth upon a Level, and afterwards, rifing gradually for 

 the Space of a Mile, to a confiderable Elevation, ( as the an- 

 tient Name /<?/' may probably import) fpreads Itfelf over a Va- 

 riety of Hills and Valleys, and lofeth the Profpedt of the Sea. 

 One of the principal Gates to the Landward, placed about a Fur- 

 long below the Summit of Thefe Hills, leads to the rugged 

 Mountains of the Beni MenaJ]er\ and, of the other two near 

 the Sea Shore, the Weftern lyeth under the Shade of the high 

 Mountains of the Beni Tifrah, and the Eaftern openeth towards 

 the mountainous Diftridl of Shenooah. 



SherJJjell being thus fhut up in the midft of Mountains ^Lnd-The D-puit 

 difficult Pafles, all Communication with It may be ealily cut ''"" '' 

 off, whenever the neighbouring Tribes, (as it frequently hap- 

 pens even to This Day) are difpofed to be mutinous and trou- 

 blefome. And, from This Circumftance, we may draw one Ar- 

 gument, that Sherftoell is the Julia Cafarea, by interpreting 

 what Trocopms ' relates of It in our Favour, viz. that the Ro- 

 mans could only come at It hy Sea, yiccejs hy Land being ren- 

 dered impracticable, as all the TaJJes were then feized upon 

 by Tfs Neighbours. 



They have a Tradition of the whole City's being deftroyed oepoyed by 

 by an Earthquake; and that the Port, formerly very large and?*"^^- 

 commodious, was reduced to the miferable Condition It is in 

 at prefent, from the ArJenal2irA other adjacent Buildings which 

 were thrown into It by the Shock. The Cothon \ that had a 

 Communication with the weftern Part of the Port, is the beft 

 Proof of This Tradition. For, when the Sea is calm, and low 

 ( as it frequently happens after ftrong S. or E. Winds,) we then 

 difcover, all over the Area, fo many maffy Pillars and Pieces 



I Ab *7y vel -Syr.'Vj; vel *"?J^ quod celfum fonat. Boch.CbanA.ix.i^. unde //;beris,Z/Jturgis,ci'- 

 vitates c^mx. ahum (itum habent. 2 Ef m [Ka/aapHai'] Vat/Muoi v<ui<n p! n'oao ^»^<iv'^- TK^n 3* ky<u m eJtfi 

 S\ji«.T%i Mou/fKorai' Iv Ttttlrit ay.nfumy tm p^pot. Procop. 1.2. de Bell. Fand. c .20. in fine. 3 Servius in 

 'iWuA. VirgiUi ^neid.x. 



Hie Partus alii effodiunt 



Portus non naturales fed arte & manu fados CothoriAS vocari afTerit. Idem fcribit & Fejiin 

 viz. i CDtap k^atam vel Phanicio more katham incidere, unde CIS'DP kjithum incifus & CI3't3p 

 kithum vel nO'Dp kethimx Incifio : ita etiam apud Arabes. vid. Boch. at fupra cap. 24. & 

 Buxt. in voce. 



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