6 Of Simyra, Orthofia, Areas &c. 



^pril, I found thefe amphibious Animals had left the Sea, and 

 were retired within the Banks of the River KiJJjon) it is at this 

 Time the Snows begin to melt upon Mount Liha?jus. And 

 as both the Sources and the whole Courfe of the Cold Stream 

 are deduced from that Mountain, the Water of it muft be 

 much colder and more impregnated with nitrous Salts, at this 

 Seafon than at another. If thefe Qiialities then fliould be agree- 

 able to the Tortoife, (for, whether it were to copulate or other- 

 wife to refrefh themfelves, any other of the adjacent Rivers 

 would equally ferve for that Purpofe ; ) the Cold Strenm would 

 certainly have the Preference ; inafmuch as none of the others 

 have the lame Relation to Mount LthanuSy from whence alone 

 thefe Qualities can be derived. However, upon the Whole, 

 let this Circumftance be received or rejected ; the River Eleu- 

 theriis may, with infinitely more Reafon and Authority, be 

 fixed at the Cold Stream, under the Walls of the ancient City 

 Orthofia, than fo much further to the Northward, where he 

 has placed it ; mz. WQ-^r^radus ' ; or at the Great Rker % which, 

 upon no other Account, than of being the deepeft, is, accord- 

 ing to his Opinion, the moft proper for a Boundary. A Cir- 

 cumftance however which has not always been regarded by this 

 Author ; otherwife the fuppofed Rivulet at Rhinocolura, would 

 never have been fo peremptorily laid down by him, in Preference 

 to the Nile, for The Rher of Egypt. But of this in its proper 

 Place. 

 ThcH.Land go much thcn wltli Regard to the different Situations, that 

 ready^veii jiavc bceu givcu by this Author and myfelf, to thefe few 

 remarkable Places upon or near the Coaft of Syria. I purpofely 

 omitted {Trav. p. 331,) to give a particular Defcription of the 

 Holy Land, as it had been already fo often and fo accurately 

 furveyed. Contenting myfelf therefore with exhibiting^what 

 I had not met with in anyTreatife of the Sacred Geography, 

 The General View and Tlan of thk Country, fo far at leaft as 

 it had fallen under my Obfervation ; I therefore laid myfelf lefs 

 open to be controverted, and have confequently little or no- 



1 Eleutberui which empties itfelf into the Sea, not fai: from the Ifle o( Aradtis. p. 80. 



2 Nar Gil/ere [Kibeerc it Hiould be) fecms to be the ^acieaz Eleutbertis, which is a deep 

 River and might well ferve for a Boundary between two Countries, p. 20 y. 



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