Q/" Eloth. 109 



In the Defcription oiRloth, (otherwife called Ailath^ Elana^iothcA..not 



cc [.X. Miles 



&c.) a Place of no fmall Confequence in the Sacred Geograp/jj/jiromGaM. 

 I have fixed it, {Trav. p. 35'i.) twenty Minutes only to the 

 Southward o^ Heroopolis, in Lat. ^9°. 40'. agreeably to the Au- 

 thorities there enumerated. But this Author lays it down in 

 Lat. i8°. 13'. and acquaints us, (p. T37.) that the Eaftern Gulf 

 of the Red Sea does not come fofar to the North as the We [tern 

 hy about a "Degree, as far as he could compute : though the 

 Circumftances of this Computation are no where related. In 

 the Map likewife, which fliould have correfponded with this 

 alledged Computation , the Latitudinal Difference is carried 

 near half a Degree further. l^Eloth then is to lye fo far to the 

 Southward, as this Author has placed it, how fhall we be able, 

 (among other Objections,) to reconcile this Account, with the 

 Diftance alone, betwixt this City and Gaza, as it is recorded 

 by Tlinj', Strabo and Ttolemy. For as Gaza has received, by 

 late Difcoveries, a fettled and determined Situation, in Lat. 

 31°. 40'. (which differs il. only from thePolition that is given 

 to it, by this Author,) there will be a Latitud'malDifference of 

 3°. 17'. betwixt them. Or, if we convert thefe Degrees into 

 Roman Miles, (by allowing lxxvj to each Degree ',) the Di- 

 ftance will be, a little more or lefs, cclx. Miles. 



Now This will exceed Ttolemfs Account, by at leall Ninety 

 Miles ; as it will Strabo's and Tlinfs, by upwards of a Hundred. 

 With regard indeed to Ttolemf?, Authority, we are to obferve, 

 that, notwithftanding Elana is laid down, in molt Copies, in 

 Lat. X9°. I s'. yet there is a great Difagreement in others, with 

 Regard to the Numbers that relate to Gaza ; fome placing 

 it in Lat. 31°. fo'. others in 31°. 40'. others in 31°. 30'. and 

 others again in 31°. 15-'. If then we take thefe Numbers, at a 

 Medium, and place Gaza in Lat. 31°. 30'. the Difference in 

 their refpedtive Latitudes, and confequently the meridional 

 Diftance itfelf, (as they lye nearly in a N. and S. Pofition from 

 each other,) will be no more than %°. 15-'. i. e. clxix. Miles ; 

 inltead of 3°. x7'. i.e. cclx. Miles, according to this Authors 

 Computation, 



But we learn from Straho and Tliny, that the Diftance be- 

 twixt Gaza and Elana was xx. Miles fliort of what Ttolemy 



I Vid. Mr. D'Aiivtlk's Jnalyfts of Italy, p. 22. 44. 



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