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July 20, we rofe at four in the morning, and travel- 
ling two hours E. S. E. we arrived at Andnne^ where 
we found the Ruins of two or three Churches^ and of a 
great Town lying in a large Plain ; where having tar- 
ried about an hour and an half, and taken fome frag- 
ments of Greek Infcriptions, which afforded no certain 
ieoce, but yet were evidently Chriftiao, we march'd 
again S. by E. and in about four hours time came to a 
. pleaftnt Aquedudt call'd Sheck-alat ; this Aqueduct is 
cut through the main Rock, for a great way from the 
Mountains and where it ends, the Jrais have made a 
Garden, which afforded us Melons, Cucumbers, PurP 
kin, In a Grott hard by, there dwelt an Arai with 
his Family he had a dozen Buffalo which they uled 
both for their Milk, and to plow the Ground, (owing 
both Wheat and Barley hither the Arahs refort, when 
they have committed any Robbery about Aleppo^ or 
Hama^ and here they repoCb, and divide tiie Spoil. 
Jd^ 21, we rofeat four in the morning, and riding 
two hours South, Ve came to a Ruine caifd Eriadeeny 
.here we found the following fnfeription on a Stone, good 
part in the Ground: 
A^IEP6;eH AAIATNAIOT TOT A M $ €TOTC 
i^lk MAT£PNOT KA(i njAnnOT KAI MAIKOT KNGTMN 
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j From hence going South-Eaftjin four hours more we came 
to a Well called Coflal (which ilgnifies a Spring in Arak) 
1^ Moll part of our way through the Delarc wc were 
troubled with Bm- holes in great numbers, like Con ey- 
^ boroughs, which by the finking in of the Earth, very 
much incommoded our Horfes and Mules, Theft Rats 
have at the ends of their Tails a bulli of Hair, and the 
Arais eat them all, excepting one part. From this Well . 
i we arofe about four in the Afternoon^ and began to 
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