( i <5o ) 
Place with which we were \yell acquainted, and to which 
feveral times in the year feme or other of our Nation 
ufually refort, either for Gazel or Hog-hunting, accord- 
ing to their Seafon ; nor had we hence above feven or 
eight hours to Aleppo. 
Oiloher the i6th. Getting up pretty early in the 
morning, we refolved to Hunt the greateft part of our 
way home, as we did ; and dining at the famous Round- 
Hilly whereon has been I'pcnt by the Engltjh more Money 
than would purchafe a noble Eftate round about it, in 
the afternoon we arrived fafe at Aleppo. 
III. Some Account of the Ancient State of the 
City of Palmyra, with jhort Kemarh^ upon 
the Infcriptions found there. By E. Halley. 
^np^ H E Cay o^Tadmor, whofe Remains in Ruines 
I do with fo much evidence demonftrate the once 
hl^y Condition thereof, (eems very well to be proved 
to be the fame City which Solomon the Great King of 
Jfrael is faid to have founded under that Name in the 
t>efarty both in i King. 9. i8. and ^ Chron. 8. 16. in 
the Tranflation of which, the Vulgar Latin Verfion^ 
(aid to be that of St. "jerom^ has it, Condidit Palmyram 
in Defer to. And Jofephus (in lib. 8. Antiq. Jud. wherein 
he treats of Solomon and his AcSs) tells us, that he built a 
City in the Defart, and called it Jhadamora ; and the 
Syrians at this day (fays he) call it by the fame Name : 
but the Greeks name it Palmyra. The Name is there- 
fore Greek, and confequently has no relation to the 
Latin Palma, and feems rather derived from TI(i?ifjuuk or 
