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third day, paffing through a Village called Teive, upoft 
a Scone fet wrong end upwards, in the midft of the Wail 
of the Mofque, we met with the following Infcription. 
All M6nCT*> K6PArNI» TPeP CwTHPIAC TPA; 
AAPIANOT • C6b .... TOT KTPIOT ArA0ANreAOC ABIAHNOC 
THC AeKAnOAeoC THN KAMAPAN «yKOAOMHCeN KAI 
TKN KAINH,... €S lAIft^N ANGOHKeN 6T0TC GMT MHNOC 
A<yOT. 
And under this was another in the fame Language 
and Charader we had feen at Tadmor ; I was furprized 
to find fuch an Infcription in this place, nor can any way 
guefs how they ftiould come by it : And the mention of 
Decapolis makes me ftill more in the dark. If one might 
extend the Bounds of Decapolis^ as fome are faid to have 
done, as far as Ccelojyria, and compri/.e under this Name 
again all Syria, fhmkia only excepted, then need it 
not be brought from elfewhere, but firfl: fet up in this 
Village. But this will not be allowed by thofe who 
make Decapolis only a part of Paleftine. The Matter 
of Fadl it contains is only an Accoivit of the Magnifi- 
cence of this Agathangelus Ahilenus^ whoever he was; 
who for the fafety of the Emperour Hadrian, erefted at 
his own Charges, and dedicated to Jupiter the Thun- 
derer, a Royal Baoqueting-Houfe, f for fo , ^ , . , , . 
T \ r r. \ r»j f ) This word I find both 
I take {d) kamapa to fignihe^ and a Bed \nTacms^\xi strabo, ufed 
of State ^ for after kainh there is doubt- for a kind of shjps or Boats, 
lefs a Letter omicted, and it ought to^be pTbic cHeSwV^^^ 
kainhn. The Date 445: agrees to the moft 50 Men; but what 
Year, of our Lord which was the l^^tnL'fd fo^:! t.^'u^ 
7//&. of , the Reign Ot Hadrian. And the either aWer or L-.kc near::. 
Month A»oc is our AuguH. ' '""•'*'"Lr -v' 
o adhere to tne ccncr tj^ ^in- 
cadoD. 
The next day we pad by the Ruines of a large Mo- ^'M-^- 
naftery, of the Maronites, as I guels it to have been, 
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