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VI. Account of a B O O K. 
The Antiquities of Palmyra alias Tadrnor ; 
Built by King Solomon in the Dcjatt of > 
Arabia : Containing the Hijiory of that Ctty 
and its Emperors^ From its Fonndation to 
this prefenttim* By Ab. Seller. 8'. 
THE Royal Society, having Publifht Two Jour- 
nals of the Englifh Merchants to TaJmur^ in the 
Defart, the Author of the T^^j/w^rfwr Antiquities under- 
took to give the Hiftory of that City, from its Founda- 
tion to this prefent Age. 
The Preface Accounts for the Rites and Cuftoms of 
the Eaftj which are ftill continued by the Arabs, who 
are very tenacious of Antient Ufages, of which the Au- 
thor gives (everal Inflances ; particularly of the Moura- 
ing for Thammur or Adonis, 
The Hiitory proves, that the City was Founded 
( or as others, Rebuilt) by Solomon a Frontier to his 
large Territories ; that it was probably taken by the 
Kings of Sjri<i from the Jews, when their Kingdom was 
divided and impaired, till the Kings of Babylon feized it ; 
(the Hiftorian of averring, that the viftorious 
Monarch Nebuchadnezzar Conquered it,before he formed 
the Siege of Jerufaleni) that upon the Ruine of the Per^ 
fian Empire, it fubmitted to the irrefiftible Alexander ; 
that it w^as (probably) Repaired and Beautified by Se- 
leucus, one of his Succeflbrs, in gratitude to whom, they 
ufed the common Computation of moft of the Eaflern , 
Cities, the j^ra Seleucidarum that Pompey, when he 
made 5jr/^ a Province, reducd tadtmry Conftituting it 
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