in the Holy Land. 9^5' 



and Contempt to the Chriflian Name, there was a Statue ereded 

 to Jupiter, over the Place of the Refurre&ion , another to 

 f^enus upon Mount Cahary, and a third to Adonis at Beth- 

 lehem. All thefe continued, 'till Conjiantine the Great and 

 his Mother St. Helena, out of their great Efteem and Vene- 

 ration for Places fo irreligioufly prophaned, eredled over them 

 thofe magnificent Temples, which fubfift to this Day. An un- 

 interrupted SuccefTion, it may be prefumed, oiChriJiians\y\\o 

 refided at Jerufalem, or who ^ were conftantly reforting thither 

 out of Devotion, would preferve the Names, not only of the 

 particular Places I have mentioned, but of others like wife that 

 are taken Notice of in the Hiftory of Our Saviour: fuch as are 

 the Pools of Bethefda, and Stloam ; the Garden of Gethfemane ; 

 the Field of Blood ; the Brook Cedron\ &c. which have all 

 been well defcribed by our Countrymen Sandys and Maundrell 

 All that I can pretend to add, is to give the Reader, in one 

 View, the particular Situations of them. 



The Lot of the Tribe of Judah was nearly equal in ^.^tGnt^he great ex- 

 to That of all the other Tribes; and being too much for themJ-rrLof' 

 the Tribe oi Simeon had their Inheritance taken out of \V. It's ' 

 Southern Boundary ^ was to be from the Bottom of the Salt 

 Sea, all along by the Border of Edom, to the River of^ Egj^pt th^ southward 

 and the Mediterranean Se^. Now as the River of Egypt (from ^ 

 feveral Arguments that might be urged if there was Occalion) 

 could be no other than the Telufiac Branch of the Kile, we may, 

 from thefe Geographical Circumftances, receive no fmall In- 

 ftrudlions towards the right fettling the Northern Border of 

 the Land of Edom, and in Confequence thereof, the Defert of 

 Zin and Kadepj Barnea, which made a Part of it : all of them 

 Places, that feem not to have been hitherto well laid down by 

 Geographers. For the Extent and Situation of the Salt Sea ' 

 being no lefs known, (at leafl as far as concerns the prefent 

 Difquilition,) than the Eaftern Branch of the Nile, an imagi- 



ginta, in loco refurredionis fimulacrum Jovis, in crucis rupe ftatua ex marmore Veneris a 

 gentibus pofita colebatur, exiftimantibus perfecutionis audtoribus , quod toilercnc nobis 

 fidem relurredionis & crucis, fi loca Sanda per idola poiluiflent. Bethlehem nunc noftrum 

 & auguftiffimum orbis locum, de quoPfalmifta canit, Veritas de Terra orta eft, lucus inum- 

 brabac Thamu^i, i. e. Adonidis; & in fpecu, ubi quondam Chriftiis parvulus vagiit, l''ene]is 

 Amafius plangebacur. Hieron. Ep. xiii. ad Paitlin. Eufeb. de Vita Qmftant. 1. 3. cap. 25-. 

 2, Longum eft nunc ab alcenfu Domini ufque ad prasfcntem diem perfingulas states currere, 

 qui Epilcoporum, qui Martyrum, qui eloqucntium in dodrina Eccleliaftica virorum vene- 

 rint Hierofolymam, putantes fe minus religionis, minus liabcre Icientice, nifi in illisChriftum 

 adorailcnt locis, de quibus primum Evangelium de patibulo coru(caverat. tTieron. Ep, 17. 

 ad Mxrcell. 3 Jop. ip. 9. 4 Numb. 34. 3, 4, j. Jofh. ly. 1,2, 3, 4. j Commonly 

 called the Afphaltic Lake or Dead Sea. P P P P X' natV 



