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possess a circuit of 150 Miles. Herodotus saith it lies close 

 by the Mountain Casius ; but now it is a small Lake. The 

 Towns are Rhinocolura ; and within the Land, Rapheea : also 

 Gaza, and within, Anthedon, and the Mountain Angoris. 

 Samaria, the Region through the Coast ; the free Town 

 Ascalon, and Azotus : the two Jamnes, whereof one is within 

 the Land ; and Joppe, in Phoanicia, which, by report, is 

 more ancient than the Deluge over the Earth. 1 It is situated 

 upon a Hill, with a Rock before it, in which they shew the 

 Remains of the Chains of Andromeda. There the fabulous 

 Derccto is worshipped. Then is Apollonia ; the Town of 

 Strato, called also Caesarea, founded by Kmgfferod: itbeareth 

 now the Name of Prima Flavia, a Colony derived from Ves- 

 pasian the Emperor. The Bounds of Paleestina are 180 Miles 

 from the Confines of Arabia : and there entereth Phoanice. 

 But within-land are the Towns of Samaria, and Neapolis, 

 which formerly was named Mainortha [or Maxbota]. Also 

 Sebaste upon the Mountain, and Gamala, which yet standeth 

 higher than it. 



Proper, to a later period than the date of our author. The bounds of 

 Palestine, in the time of the Romans, embraced Judaea, Samaria, Galilee, 

 and Trachonitis ; and Perasa and Idumsea. Wern. Club. 



1 Mandeville, who travelled through these countries about the year 

 1323, and collected all the information that fell in his way, without discri- 

 mination, says : " And whoso wil go longe tyme on the See, and come 

 nerrer to Jerusalem, he schal go fro Cipre, be see, to the Port Jaff. For 

 that is the nexte Havene to Jerusalem. For fro that Havene is not but 

 o Day Journeye and an half to Jerusalem. And the Town is called Jaff : 

 for on of the Sones of Noe, that highte Japhet, founded it ; and now it is 

 clept Joppe. And zee schulle undrestonde, that it is on of the oldest 

 Townes of the World : for it was founded before Noes Flode. And zitt 

 there schewethe in the Roche ther, as the Irene cheynes were festned, 

 that Andromade, a great Geaunt, was bounden with, and put in Presoun 

 before Noes Flode : of the whiche Geaunt, is a rib of his Syde, that his 40 

 Fote longe." In the Ethiopics of Heliodorus, book x., the Ethiopic kings 

 are said to derive their pedigree from Perseus and Andromeda ; whose 

 history is by Pliny treated as something more than a fable. But the 

 mistake of Mandeville, in confounding Andromeda with the monster 

 that was to have devoured her, is perfectly consistent with other errors 

 in regard to the Scriptures and classical learning, which occur in his 

 narrative. Wcrv. Club. 



