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equally long range of Counter-Lebanon, which was 

 formerly connected ^\ith Lebanon by a wall. Behind 

 Counter-Lebanon inhind is the region of the Ten 

 Cities, and with it the tetrarchies ah-eady men- § 74. 

 tioned, and the whole of the wide expanse of Pales- 

 tine; while on the coast, below Mount Lebanon, 

 are the river Magoras, the colony of Beyrout called 

 Juha FeHx, Lion's Town, the river Lycus, Palaeby- 

 blos, the river Adonis, the towns of Jebeil, Batrun, 

 Gazis, Trieris, Calamos ; Tarabhs, inliabited by people 

 from Tyre, Sidon and Ruad ; Ortosa, the river Eleu- 

 theros, the towas of Zimyra and Marathos ; and facing 

 them the seven-furlong town and island of Ruad, 

 330 yards from the mainland ; the region in whicli 

 the mountain ranges above mentioned terminate ; 

 and beyond some intervening plains Mount Bargylus. 



X^TIL At this point Phoenicia ends and Syria Sijria 

 begins again. There are the to^vns of Tartus, 

 Banias, Bolde and Djebeleh; the cape on which 

 the free town of Latakia is situated ; and DipoUs, 

 Heraclea, Charadrus and Posidium. Then the cape 

 of Antiochian Syria, and inhmd the city of Antioch 

 itself, which is a free tovm and is called ' Antioch 

 Near Daphne,' " and which is separated from Daphne 

 by the river Orontes ; while on the cape is the free 

 town of Seleukeh, called Pieria. Above Selcukeh is a 

 mountain having tlie same name as the other one, 5C8- 

 Casius, which is so extremely lofty that in the 

 fourth quarter of the night it commands a view of 

 the sun rising through the darkness, so presenting 

 to the observer if he merely turns round a view of 

 day and night simultaneously. The winding route 

 to the summit nieasures 19 miles, the perpendicuhn* 

 height of ihe nuiuntain being 4 iniles. On the coast 



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