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way between Damafcus and Heliopolis The other in 
JuJaa, called Alila ad Jordanem^ defcribed by Jofephm 
in many places, to lie over*againft Jericho^ near the Dead* 
Sea. Decapolis was fo called from its Ten Cities, enume- 
rated by P/iny ( //^5'.! 8.) And with them he reckons up, 
among others, the Tetrarchy of AMla^ in the fame Deca-^ 
polls : which demonftrates the Alila Decapolis and Ahila.^ 
Lyfania to be the fame Place, And tho' it cannot be de- 
nied, but that fome of Pliny's Ten Cities are not far di- 
flant from that near Jordan ; yet it doth not appear that 
ever this other had the Title of a Tetrarchy, Here it is 
to be obferved, that what Pliny c^Ws Decapolis ^ Ptolemy 
makes his Co^le Syria ; and the Cosle Syria of Pliny y is 
that part of Syria about Aleppo^ formerly call'd Chalci'- 
iene^ Cyrrhiftice^ &c. 
What this Town of teile was anciently call'd, is not 
C) eafily Gonjeflured : but if the Numbers of P/(?/(?^;?y 
may be confided in, it is very near the Situation of a City 
he calls Oriza ; and perhaps his Adada may be our Soukney^ 
and his Rh^efapha what is now called Arfoffa, 
It is taken for granted, that Old Aleppo was anciently 
* the City of Berrhcea^ and there wants not ancient Te- 
ftimony to prove it which being granted, I think I 
may without (cruple conclude, thsit Andrene (pag. 131, 
and 139.) is the Ruines of the City oi Androna ; and 
Efree (pag. 141.) that of Seriane^ both mentioned in 
the Itinerary of Antoninus ^ in the Journey a D&lica Se^ 
riane. But this whole Country is laid about Haifa 
Degree more Southerly than it ought, by Ptolemyy who 
places Berrhm in Lat. 36 deg. For the Meridian Al- 
titude of the Tropical Sun at Aleppo is found there but 
77 deg whence the Latitude 36 deg 30 min, as it was 
obferved, Anm i6%Oy by three- feveral Quadrants, in 
the prefeace of a- curious Gentleman, to v/hom I am^ 
fibliged for thisr.CQmmunication.. 
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