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are, Carne^, Ealaiiea^, Paltos^, and Gabale"* ; tlien the pro- 
montory upon which is situate the free town of Laodicea^ ; 
and then Diospolis^, Heraclea^, Charadras^, and Posidium^. 
(21.) We then come to the Promontory of Syria Antio- 
chia. In the interior is the free city of Antiochia^^ itself, 
snrnamed Epidaphnes^\ and- divided by the river Orontes^^. 
1 Also called Antarados, as lying nearly opposite to the city of Arados. 
According to Strabo, the port of Antarados was called Game, or Carnos. 
In the time of the Crusades, it was known under the name of Tortosa. 
Its present name is Tartus. ' 
2 Now Banias. It was situate twenty-four miles north of Antarados. 
Its name is supposed to have originated in the baths in its vicinity. 
The site is deserted ; but a few ruins of the ancient town are still to 
be seen. 
3 Eight miles from Balanea. Its rmns are known by the name of Boldo. 
* Its site is now known as Djebeleh, a small village in the vicinity of 
Laodicea, or Latakia. The sun was probably worshipped here, and 
hence the Emperor Heliogabalus derived his name. 
* About jGLfty miles south of Antioch, now called Ladikiyeh, or Latakia, 
noted for the excellence of its tobacco, which has an European reputation* 
It was built by Seleucus I., on the site of an earher city, called Eamitha. 
It was afterwards greatly favoured by JuHus Csesar. Herod the Grreat 
built an aqueduct here, the ruins of which are still in existence. It is 
now a poor Turkish village ; but there are considerable remains of the 
ancient city to be seen in its vicinity. 
^ It has been suggested, that PHny means the city of Lydda, in the 
tribe of Benjamin, \yhich of Course would be very much to the south, 
and quite out of the order in which he is proceeding. If that is not the 
place meant, this Diospohs is utterly unknown. 
7 At some miles' distance to the north of Laodicea. Pococke found 
some traces of its site at a spot called Minta Baurdeleh, or the Bay of 
the Tower. 
s Pliny is in error here most probably, and is speaking of a place as 
being in Syria which in reahty was inCihcia, between Platanus andCragus. 
The name imphes its situation near a mountain torrent. 
9 On a small bay, some miles north of Heraclea. 
10 Or Antioch, the capital of the Greek kings of Syria, and the most 
famous of the sixteen cities built by Seleucus Nicator, and called after 
the name of his father, (or son, as some say,) Antiochus. It was built on 
the Orontes, and formed one of the most beautiful and pleasant cities of 
the ancient world. The modern Antakieh is a poor town, built on the 
north-western part of the site of the ancient city, by the river. The 
walls, built by Justinian, may still be traced for a circuit of four miles. 
Here the followers of our Saviour first obtained the name of " Christians." 
11 That is, " Near Daphne," there being a celebrated grove of that 
name, consecrated to Apollo, in its immediate vicinity. 
12 Now called the Nahr-el-Asy. / 
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