176 Mtfcellanea Curtofa. Vol. Ill, 



Ahila. JDecapoUs and Ahila Lyfaniat to be the 

 fame Place. And tho' it cannot be denied, 

 but that feme of PUnyh Ten Cities are not 

 far diftant from that near Jordan *^ yet it doth 

 not appear that ever this other had the Ti-^ 

 tie of a Tetrarchy^ Here it is to be obferved, 

 that what Pliny calls BecapoUs^ Ptolemy makes 

 his Cde Syria ; and the Cde Syria of Pliny^ is 

 that part of Syria about Aleffo^ formerly calFd 

 Chalcidene^ Cyrrhiftice^ &C. 



What this Town of 'teihe was anciently 

 calPd, is not fo eafily conjeftured : But if the 

 Numbers of Ptolemy may be confided in, it 

 is very near the Situation of a City he calls 

 Oriz,a y and perhaps his Adada may be our 

 Soukney^ and his Rhd^fapha what is now called 

 Arfojfa. 



It is taken for granted, that Old AUpp 

 was anciently the City of Berrh^a^ and there 

 wants not ancient Teftimony to prove it ; 

 which being granted, I think I m.ay without 

 fcruple conclude, that Andrene (pag. 122. and 

 133.) is the Ruins of the City of Androna:^ 

 and Efree (^pag. 135.) that of Seriane^ both 

 mentioned in the Itinatary of Antoninus^ in 

 the journey a Dolicd Seriane. But this whole 

 Country is laid about half a Degree more 

 Southerly than it ought, by Ptolemy^ who 

 places BcrrhM in Lat. 3(5 deg. For the Me- 

 ridian Altitude of the Tropical Sun zt Aleppo 

 is found there but 77 deg. v^hence the Lati- 

 tude 35 deg. o^omin. as it was obferved, Anno 

 i(58o. by three feveral Quadrants, in the pre-* 

 fence of a curious Gentleman, to whom I am 

 obliged for this Communication- 



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