and the River Eleutherus. 5 



OrthoftUy the other City that is wanting, is indeed of a more orr^w?^ (up- 

 undetermined Situation. However we mav be lumciently au- Banks of the 



_ . ■!,,.. Cold Stream ) 



thorizedj from the fame Quotation, to look tor it to the ^i^e ancient 



r ■ 1 • 1 vT •It 1 1 r Tk • Elfutherm, 



Southward of Stmyra, and in the Neighbourhood ot a River. 

 The latter of thefe Circumftances is further confirmed by the 

 Antonine Medal of Orthofia ', where we have the Goddefs 

 ^/larte trending upon a River. In fuch a Situation therefore, 

 wherever we meet with any confiderable Heap of Ruins, (and 

 we only meet with this;) there, it may be prefumed, we have 

 Authority enough for fixing Orthofia. Now, upon the Northern 

 Banks of the Cold Stream, there is a large Extent of Ruins, 

 which fpread themfelves, from the very Foot of Mount Li- 

 hanus, (the River only intervening,) to within a quarter of a 

 Mile of the Sea. Neither can we pafs over the Cold Stream, 

 from the Jeune, without travelling through the very Midft of 

 thefe Kuiiis. The Situation of Simyra therefore being already 

 fixed and fettled, it is very reafonable to conclude, that, as the 

 Cold Stream can be no other than the Eleutherti^s , fo thefe Ruins, 

 that lye heaped upon the Banks of it, muft belong to Orthofia; 

 the other and the only City that is wanting. 



No lefs Oppofition, and with as little Foundation, is made ^^f", or ^r- 

 to the Situation o^ ^rcas ox y4rca, as it is now called, which em City, 

 I found five Miles to the Eaftward of Sumrah, under the 

 Northern Shade of Mount Lihanus. The many Tokens that 

 ftill remain of its former Strength and Magnificence, might 

 alone, I imagined, have fecured it an honourable Rank among 

 the Cities of this Country ; at leaft, not to have given any Oc- 

 cafion at all to treat it, as this Author has done \ with fo 

 much Indignity and Contempt, as to call it only a Manfio. 

 For hereby he feems to look upon the Area, which I have de- 

 fcribed, as a Place of no Figure and Reputation ; quite different, 

 and at a Diftance too, from the real City of that Name. 

 Whereas this, I prefume, is the only Area that need be in- 

 quired after. Neither will the Appellation oi Manfio \ attri- 



1 See the initial Letter, 7>.«v. p. 321. 



2 Haifa League from the River ^tCfr is the River Area, where Arcxi nnifl: have been. 

 This was only zM.infw and not that Area, which was an inland City oi Pbxn'ue, luuated 

 among the Mountains, betwixt which this River pafTes. Vol, U. p. 204. 



3 Manfio ponitur pro Stationibus in quas militcs fc expcditionis tempore quicfcendi 

 caufa recipiebant, qus annonis & pabulis ex vicinorum collatione inftruebantur. Suet, in 

 Tit. I'efp. c. 13. Bir^ier. deViis Pulilieis. 5- 7- 



A 1 buted 



