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deum exftruxit ; qui Al Phuftat ^ Al Cahrum^ quodqiie ea inter- 

 jacei, arcemque etiam quce eft juxta Al Mokattem cingtt. Hie 

 etiam fuit qui arc em inftruxit, duo f que in ea puteosfodit, qui 

 hodie reperiuntur. Hift. ^gypt. p. Sy. 



g(^g. 1. X9. ^dd, after Mariners. This feems to be a Cor- 

 ruption of Cuerpo Santo, (or Holy Body) as the Spajiiards call 

 thefe Meteors ; which were no other than the Caftor and Tollux 

 of the Ancients. Tlin. 1. r. c. 37. 



Ibid. 1. 37. .jf^dd, after Nile. As the Month o^ February is 

 the ufualTime 2itJerufaIem,iox the falling of Snow,it might have 

 been at that particular Seafon of the Year, when Benaiah is 

 faidj ( I Sam. xg. ao.) to have gone down and [mote a Lion, in 

 the Time of Snow. 



3(^5-. Add. This Fertility of the H. Land'i^ confirmed from 

 ancient Authors, of great Repute. Tacitus 1. y. c. 6. calls it uber 

 folum ; and JuUin, (Hift. 1. 36. c. 3.) fed non minor loci ejus 

 apricitatis quam ubertatis admiratio efl. 



366. 1.x 8. y4dd, to the Account of the Wild Honey, thefe 

 Annotations. Jofephus {Bell. Jud. 1. 5-. c. 4.) c?iVis Jericho u&Mr- 

 T07?-o(pov x^e^v. We find moreover that Wild Honey was often 

 mentioned in Scripture. And all they of the Land came to a 

 Wood, and there was Honey upon the Ground ; and when the 

 Teople were come to the Wood, behold the Honey dropped, i Sam. 

 1 4.. 1 5", x6. He made him to fuch Honey out of the Rock. Deut. 

 31. 14.. With Honey out of the ftony Rock have I fatisfied thee. 

 Pfal.81. 16. Diodorus Siculus (1. 19.) fpeaksof the ^m ly^m, that 

 dropped from Trees; which fome interpret, perhaps too haftily, 

 to be nothing more than a honey Dew, or fome liquid Kind of 

 Manna. Whereas Bees are known to fvvarm, as well in the 

 hollow Trunks and Branches of Trees, as in the Clifts of Rocks; 

 Honey therefore may be equally expelled from both Places. 



378. To Note I. add this learned Remark, and corrobo- 

 rating Proof, from Dr. Hyde ; who in his Annotations on Terit- 

 fols Itinerary, p. IT- deduces the Name of Barca and Libya, 

 from this Thcenomenoti. Et quidem {ut denominationis caufam 

 ^ rationem exquiramus) di&um nomen '^'t^^. r^p'^^r^ fplendorem 

 feu fplendentem regionem not at, cum ea regio radiis folaribus 

 tarn copiofe colluftretur, ut reflexum ab arenis lumen adeo in- 

 tenfe fulgens, a longinquo fpe&antibus {ad in far Corporis So- 

 laris) 



