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CHAP. I. 



c/^ further Illujlration of the Situation of the ancient 

 Cities Simyra, Areas and Orthofia ; of the Rivers 

 Eleutberus alfo and Kilhon ; and "why the Dead 



Sea never overflows its Banks. 



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HOUGH there is no fmall Difference in the Accounts The Trium- 

 phal Arch at 



that have been pubhllied by this Author and myfelf, Laodkeas<c, 

 with Regard to the Triumphal Arch at Laodicea, and defcribed. 

 thePolition of fome remarkable Cities, (fuch as Marathm and 

 ^titaradm^ v/hich lye hQtwixt Laodicea mid the Jeu^e', yet, 

 as thefe Difagreements are of no great Confequence, I fhall 

 begin with the Defence of the Situations, that have been 

 given (Travels p. 3x7.) to Simyra, Areas, Orthofia and the 

 River Eleutberus : and fhall prove, notwithftanding the labo- 

 rious and intricate Argumentation of this Author to the con- 

 trary, (Vol. X. p.xo4..6:c. ) that Simyra ought to be fixed at 

 Sumrah ; Areas at Area ; Unhofm upon the N. Banks of the 

 Cold Stream \ and, that the Cold Stream itfelf is the River 

 Eleiitherus. 



Not therefore to recapitulate any of the Arguments thcLtThe^radian, 

 have been urged, in my Book of Travels ; the Authority alone S'of^^he'" 

 of Straho ', will be abundantly fufficient for determining the^"""' 

 Situation, at leaft, of the firft and the latter of thefe Places. 

 For after mentioning Marathti-s, he inftruds us, that The Ara- 

 dians were -poffeljed of all the neighhoufmg Cou7itry upon the 

 Continent : called at prefent, as we may prefume, the Jeune 

 or Plain. They were poffejfed likewife of the T)'iftri£t ofTaxy- 

 mira"- (or Simyra ') that lay beyond it (i. e. the Jeune) to the 

 Southward. Adjoyning to thefe Diftrids, continues this Author, 



1 lit ,N p^a'psti' 'A(i.J)ol )(3.-mx>y(;i')^7tiLy ^ Ta^u/i/zpcf li lp^»! ^aetov. 'Tims S'' » OfSayiiy nM/<;y)'s- K?t 

 )^ E^c.w5«p®' Tm-miMSi ov;Tip %eioy •mivvrtu mh <? 'ZiKaCiuJh! isr^U jh 4>oiviKiiy i^ tw xoi'axi' Sueicw. 

 Strah. p. f 18. Mm Ji Op-Sainco' cjr icj tov EAc-(;5?e;i' Teiwn^K. Id. p. j 19. 



2 Kcti Ta^Jf^prt legcndum ^9 to sJ^ja, vel potiiis to 2Jju/pc«. Snpktmis vocare Airx^i* videtur, 

 Flin'ms Simjra, & Pioleni. Si/w^a. vid. If, Cafaub. in locum. 



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