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been conftantly kept up and propagated , in the very fame 

 Manner, we find it to have been in Egypt and Barhary. 

 The Rocks up. From the Vegetable Kingdom, let us pafs on to give an Ac- 

 sLre "hewn count of fuch RoclvS, Foffils, Fountains^ Rivers^ and Animals 

 moat '''"• Qf |-j,gfe (^Quj^j-j-ies, as are the moft remarkable. Now the 

 RockSj in feveral Places upon the Coaft of Syria and Thcs^ke^ 

 have been hollowed into a great Number of Troughs^ two or 

 three Yards Long, and of a proportionable Breadth, feeming to 

 have been originally intended for fo many Salt Works ; where, by 

 continually throwing in the Sea Water to evaporate, a large 

 Quantity of Salt would in Time be concreted. We fee feve- 

 ral of thefe Troughs at Latikea, Antaradus^ Tr'ifoly and other 

 Places ; which at prefent, notwithftanding the Hardnefs of the 

 Rock, are moft of them worn fmooth, by the Waves continu- 

 ally dafhing upon them. 

 The higher Abovc this Bcd of Hard Stone, in the Neighbourhood of 

 fuaiiy -white Lutikea , the Rocks are of a foft chalky Subilance , from 

 whence probably the adjacent City borrowed the Name of 

 (Aeo^<x ttx,T») The white Tromontory. The Nakoura, formerly 

 called the Scala Tyriorum, is of the fame Nature and Com- 

 plexion ; both of them including a great Variety of Corals, 

 Foffii Rflies. Shells, and other Remains of the Deluge. U pon the Caftravan 

 Mountains, above Barroute, there is another curious Bed like- 

 wife of whitifli Stone, of the Slate Kind, which unfolds, in 

 every Fleak of it , a great Number and Variety of Fifhes. 

 Thefe, for the moft Part, lye exceeding flat and compreft, like 

 the Foffil Fern Plants, yet are, at the fame Time, fo well 

 preferved, that the fmalleft Stroakes and Lineaments of their 

 Fins, Scales, and other fpecifical Diftindions, are ealily diftin- 

 guiflied. Among thofe that were brought to me from this 

 Place, I have a beautiful Specimen of the Squilla, which, 

 though the tendereft of the Cruftaceous Fifties, yet hath not 

 fuffered the leaft Injury from Length of Time or other 

 Accidents. 

 Moji of the The greateft Part of the Mountains of Carmel, and of thofe 

 Hofy Land i" the Neighbourhood of Jerufalem and Bethlehem, are made 

 "i^^ilty!^" up of the like white chalky Strata. In the former we gather 

 a great many Stones, which being in theForm, as it is pretended, 

 of Olives, Melons, Peaches and other Fruit ; are commonly 

 impofed upon Pilgrims, not only for fuch Curiofities, but as 



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