524. Geographical Ohfervations 



ftaiices and Events, that are to fall out in the future Courfe 

 of their Lives. 

 o/^.rCryptx The Sepulchral Chambers near Jehilee, Tortofa and the Ser- 

 "Nature. ' " pentFoiintam, together with thofe that are commonly called the 

 Royal Sepulchres at Jerufalem, are all of them exadly of the 

 fame Workmanfhip and Contrivance with the Crypta oiLatikea. 

 And in one of the Chambers of the Royal Sepulchre s^thQXQ is one 

 of the antient Sarcophagi remaining, which is of a Tarian-\\\.Q 

 Marble, in the Falliion of a Trunk, very elegantly carved all 

 over with Flowers, Fruit and Foliage. Inftead likewife of thole 

 long narrow Cells that are common in the other Crypto \ fome 

 of thefe have feveral Benches only of Stone, placed one over 

 another, upon which the Coffins were placed. 

 Paltus. The greateft Part of the Country betwixt Latikea and Jehilee 

 isftony and mountainous ; but at thelatter,we begin to enter up- 

 on a moft delightful Plain, that was formerly theNorthernLimit 

 of the Diftrid of the u4radians \ At the Mouth of the River 

 Melleck, fix Miles from Jehilee, the Sea forms Itfelf into a 

 fmall Bay , where we have the Ruins of an antient City, the 

 Taltus probably of the Antients : and a little to the E. N. E. of 

 thefe Ruins, there is a large fubterraneous Conduit, with a 

 Number of lefler ones detached from it , which Ipreading them- 

 felves, for the Space of feveral Furlongs, through a Piece of low 

 marfhy Ground, might have been the Drains that were for- 

 merly made ufe of to render it fit for Tillage. 

 carne, or Seven Leagues to theS. hyV^. of the River Melleck, and a 

 c/Aradul^ little to the Northward oiTortofa, are the Traces of a Cothon^ 

 with a fmall Pottery hard by It. Here probably was the an- 

 tient Car tie, as the Cothon Itfelf might be the Dock that Straho * 

 tells us belonged to the ^radians. Betwixt the Pottery and 

 Tortofa, are the Crypt a that have been already taken Notice of. 

 Tortofa tke Tortofa, OX 'Dcir-dofe as the Inhabitants call It, is very well 

 defcribed by Mr. Maundrell, though miftaken, 1 prefume, by 

 him and others, for Orthofia, which we are to look for a great 

 way to the Southward, upon the Confines of Syria and Thcsnice. 

 For though Orthofia may indeed feem to have an eafy Tranfi- 

 tion into Tortofa, yet confidering there was at this Place a 

 large Convent, ^nd two very Magnificent Chrijlian Churches, 



I E/T ( fc. a Gabala) JlA S 9^ h^nllm rrahcui, [<^^Ki<t Boch. Phal. I. 4. cap. ^6.) &c. Strab. 

 1. 16. p. 1093. 2 Kiftr®' li (Trtmovf Ajii^a, ?lf^iayi^v, Jd. ibid. 



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