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cd upon the Summit of an adjacent Mount, and, by the Situ- 

 ation, muft have been impregnable in former Times. For the 

 Mount is in the Figure of a Cone, in an Afcent, by the Qi^a- 

 drant, of fifty or lixty Degrees, appearing not to have been the 

 Work of Nature, but of Art. In the deep Valley below the 

 City, we have a brisk Stream more than fufficient for the Ne- 

 ceffities of the Place; yet it hath been judged more convenient 

 to fupply it with Water from Mount Lihanus. For which 

 Purpofe, they have united the Mountain to the City by an 

 Aquedud, whofe principal Arch could not be lefs than a hun- 

 dred Foot in Diameter. 

 Nahar el ^wo Lca^ucs to the W. S. W. of Avcu, we pafs over the 



Bcrd the ^^ 



RiverEi.KV-JS[aharelBerd, the Co Id River, or, according to Mr. ikf/^/z^^re"//, 



T H F R XT *5 ^^^ 



the Cold JVaters. This Stream arifeth from among the 

 Northern Eminences of Mount Lihanus, and fwelling, at cer- 

 tain Times of the Summer, by the extraordinary Liquefadtion 

 of the Snow,might from thence have givenOccafion to theName. 

 We may fix here , I prefume , the River Eleutherus, which 

 is fo much wanted in the old Geography. For Ttolemy ' placeth 

 it, according to the prefent Pofition of theiVi^^^r el Berd, fix 

 Miles to the Northward of Tripoly, in the very Latitude almoft 

 Or-tofa, the that I find it. In like Manner, Straho placeth Ortho/ia, im- 

 mediately after it, to the Northward : agreeable whereunto we 

 ftill find, upon the Banks of this River, the Ruins of a confider- 

 able City, whofe adjacent Diftridt pays Yearly to the Ba/haii/s 

 of Tripoly, a Tax of fifty Dollars by the Name oWr-tofa. The 

 Situation of it likewife is further illwftrated , by a Medal of 

 Antoninus Tins , ftruck at this Place, upon the Reverfe of 

 which, we have the Goddefs Aft arte treading upon a River. 

 For this City hath been built, upon a rifing Ground, on the 

 Northern Banks of the River \ within half a Furlong of the 

 Sea ; having fome of the rugged Eminences of Mount Lihanus 

 at a little Diftance to the Eaft : whereby it muft have always 



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been 



