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are, Came\ Balanea', Paltos', and Gabale* ; then the pro- 

 montory upon which is situate the free town of Laodicea' ; 

 and then Diospolis^ Heraclea^ Charadrus^ and Posidium". 

 (21.) We then come to the Promontory of Syria Antio- 

 chia. In the interior is the free city of Antiochia^" itself, 

 Bumamed Epidaphnes", and divided by the river Orontes". 



* Also called Antarados, as lying nearly opposite to the city of Arados. 

 According to Strabo, the port of Antarados was called Came, or Camos. 

 In the tune of the Crusades, it was known under the name of Tortosa. 

 Its present name is Tartus. 



' Now Banias. It was situate twenty-four mUes north of Antarados. 

 Its name is supposed to have originated in the baths in its vicinity. 

 The site is deserted ; but a few ruins of the ancient town are still to 

 be seen. 



8 Eight miles firom Balanea. Its ruins are known by the name of Boldo. 



* Its site is now known as Djebeleh, a small village in the vicinity of 

 Laodicea, or Latakia. The sun was probably worshipped here, and 

 hence the Emperor Hehogabalus derived his name. 



^ About fifty miles south of Antioch, now called Ladikiyeh, or Latakia, 

 noted for the excellence of its tobacco, which has an European reputation. 

 It was bmlt by Seleucus I., on the site of an earher city, called Eamitha. 

 It was afterwards greatly favoured by Juhus Csesar. Herod the Great 

 built an aqueduct here, the ruins of which are still in existence. It is 

 now a poor Turkish village ; but there are considerable remains of the 

 ancient city to be seen in its vicinity. 



* It has been suggested, that Phny means the city of Lydda, in the 

 tribe of Benjamin, which of course would be very much to the south, 

 and quite out of the order in which he is proceeding. If that is not the 

 place meant, this Diospohs is utterly unknown. 



7 At some miles' distance to the nortli of Laodicea. Pococke foimd 

 some traces of its site at a spot called Minta Baurdeleh, or the Bay of 

 the Tower. 



* Pliny is in error here most probably, and is speaking of a place as 

 being in Syria which in reality was inCihcia, between Platanus andCragus. 

 The name impHes its situation near a mountain torrent. 



9 On a small bay, some miles north of Heraclea. 



^^ Or Antioch, the capital of the Greek kings of Syria, and the most 

 famous of the sixteen cities built by Seleucus Nicator, and called after 

 the name of his father, (or son, as some say,) Antiochus. It was built on 

 the Orontes, and formed one of the most beautiful and pleasant cities of 

 the ancient world. The modem Antakieh is a poor town, built on the 

 north-western part of the site of the ancient city, by the river. The 

 walls, built by Justinian, may still be traced for a circuit of four miles. 

 Here the followers of ovir Saviour first obtained the name of "Christians." 



" That is, *' Near Daphne," there being a celebrated grove of that 

 jiame, consecrated to Apollo, in its immediate vicinity. 



*2 Now called the Nahr-el-Asy. 



