590 TRAVELS IN AFRICA, 
ment of his followers to his fon, who was generally his fubfti- 
tute in the field*. 
On the I ith of June fet out from Aleppo for Antioch, where 
I arrived on the 14th. Part of the route is mountainous. We 
pafled the Orontes at a ferry. Country cultivated with Hafhifh, 
a kind of flax. 
Entered Antioch, now called Antaki, by Bah-Bolus^ the gate 
of St. Paul. The walls are extenfive, but the houfes are 
chiefly confined to one corner. Numerous towers flank the 
w^alls, which are fl:rong and lofty, and run from the river 
Orontes, the fouthern boundary of the city, up to the fum- 
mit of the mountain. There is a fubllantial bridge over the 
river, which winds through a fertile vale. A large caftle 
on the mountain, now ruinous, commands an extenfive pro- 
fped. 
Antioch is governed by a Mohajfel^ who derives hi& 
appointment from Confliantinople. He received me witk 
great politenefs, and defired me to make what refearches I 
pleafed. 
* This fe£l:, reprefented to me by the Arabs, and others in Syria, as having 
only at a late period originated, is precifely mentioned by Niebuhr, Defcription 
d' Arabic, ed. Paris, p. 208. with a little variation as to the tenets of its founder. 
He dates its rife in the year 1760, which is very poflible, confidering that the 
later accounts all agree that Ahd-eUazix el WahhaVe is a man of very advanced 
age. 
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