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with a full Profped: of the Sea^ and was called by the Antients 

 Laodicea ad mare ', and Aeu5C5^ Ax-nl^ from the white Cliffs that 

 lye on each Side of it. From the Cittadel, we have a plea- 

 fant, though diflant View of the Mountains oi Caramaniaj and 

 Cajffius to the North ; and of Jehilee^ Merkah, Bannias and 

 Tortofa to the South. The Founder could not have pitched 

 upon a more agreeable Situation, affording at the fame Time, 

 Delight and Security. 



The Ruins of Hcrc are ftill remaining feveralRows of Torphyry, and Cra- 

 nage Pillars ; with a large Fragment of an Aqueduct, the fame 

 perhaps that, as Jofephus ^ informs us, was built by Herod, It 

 is a maffy Stru6lure without Arches, and flretches towards the 

 S.E. But the chief furviving Monument of the antient Grandeur 

 and Magnificence of this Place, is a large triumphal Arch, 

 fupported by Pillars of the Corinthian Order, which they have 

 converted at prefent into a Mo [que. The Architrave is adorn- 

 ed with Trophies, Shields, Battle-Axes, and other military 

 Weapons, whilft the reft of the Entablature is exceeding bold 

 and fumptuous. We fee difperfed all over thefe Ruins, feveral 

 Fragments both of Greek and Latin Infcriptions, but they were 

 all of them fo miferably defaced, that it would have been to 

 little Purpofe to have copied them. 



The cochon. A FurloHg to the Weflward of the Town, are the Ruins of 

 a beautiful Cothon , built in the Figure of an Amphitheatre, 

 and capacious enough to receive the whole Britifi Navy. The 

 Mouth of It, opens to the Weft ward, being about forty Foot 

 wide, and defended by a fmall Caftle. The whole appears to 

 have been a Work and Strudure of great Labour and Delign, 

 though, at prefent, it is filled up to that Degree with Sand 

 and Pebbles, that half a dozen fmall VefTels are all that can 

 conveniently be admitted at one Time. The like Accidents, ari- 

 fing chiefly from the large Billows that attend the weflerly 

 Storms, have intirely ruined the Cothon of Jehilee, That a little 

 to theNorthward oiTortofa^ Thofe o^Rou-wadde^Tripoly^Tyre, 

 Acre and Jaffa. At all thefe Places, we cannot fufficiently 

 admire the great Induftry and Contrivanceof the Antients, in 



I eTtw AoeocfiKHet, ^ t? SotAirrH Ka?>,/sa hTKr/j^n Kffi ^Iti^Qf -nrMfi ^es^ ji 'v^gvm inf^ioiyai a&s ta 

 «»ji\ ilr&^-m^. Sir ah. Geogr. I. i<5. p. 109 1. Exclufus ab AntiocbU Dolabella ** Laodiceam 

 qua eft, in Syria, ad mare, fe contulit. C'lc. Epift. 1. 12. Ep. 14. 



Aaoi'iKxt ^' if KtiTtu i'jr' i'tmozi Sit.ha,Kns. Diowi/. Perieg. 1. pij. 

 2 A(tO(/)Kcvsi iJ 78?? t^M'e/r, UsL-mv Htwjwyn/ ** iy't^Kt. Jof. de Bell. Jud. 1. I. cap. 16. 



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