Chap. L from Aleppo /o Jerusalem. 845 
Being Come to the Side of the Duan^ you flip off blites^ mentioned Jofh. xiii. 5. whom King Hiram made 
your Shoes, and take your Place firft at fodne Diftance, ufe of in preparing Materials for Solomon'^ Temple* 
and upon your Knees, laying your Hands formally be- as maybe colledled from i King, v. 18. where the Word 
fore you j and there you muft remain till the Man of rendred Stone-fquarers in the Hebrew is Giblim^ and in 
Quality invites you to draw nearer, and to lean upon the Verfion of the feventy i.e. the Men of 
a Bolfter. When you are thus fix’d, he difcourfes with bins, the former ufing the Hebrew,, the latter the Greek 
you as Occafion offers, the Servants flanding round Name of the Place j which Difference may be obferv’d 
with profound Refpedt and Silence. When you have likewrfe in Ezek, xxwn. where our Tranflation has 
talk’d over your Bufinefs or made your Compliments, the Ancients of Gebef, and the Seventy the Elders of By - 
he makes a Sign to have the Eintertainment bins. Leaving Gy^zY^’, we came to a River call’d by the 
brought in, which is generally a little fweet Meat, a Eurks Ibrahim Bajja, which is doubtlefs that ancient Ri-^ 
Difh of Shirbet, and another of Coffee, which is pre- ver fo famous for the Idolatrous Rites perform’d here in 
fently brought in by the Servants, and tender’d to all Lamentation of Adonis, and we lodg’d on the Banks 
the Guefts in Order with great Care ; for if any of them of it that Night. 
fhouid make the leaf! Slip in giving or receiving his 9. The 1 7th, having had a very tempeftuous Night of 
Difh, it might coft him 100 Drubs on his bare Feet Wind and Rain, we had an Opportunity of difcovering 
to attone for his Crime. At laft comes the finifhing the Occafion of that Opinion which Lucian relates, that 
Part of the Entertainment, which is perfuming the/ 
Beards of the Company *, and for this Purpole, they 
have a fmall Silver Chafing-difli, with a Lid full of 
Holes, fix’d on a Plate, in which they put fome frefh 
Coals, and upon them a Piece of Lignum- Aloes, and 
then the Smoke afcends with a grateful Odour through 
the Holes of the Cover. This Smoke is held under 
every ones Chin, and offer’d as a Sacrifice to his Beard, 
which greedily drinks in the gummy Steam, and re- 
tains the Savour of it a good while after. This Ce- 
remony is intended to give a civil Difmiffion to 
the Vifitants, intimating that tfiey may go away 
as foon as they pleafe, and the fooner after this the 
better. 
Having ended our Vifit to Oflan Baffa, we rid out 
after Dinner to view the Marine, which is about half an 
Hour diflant from the City. The Port is an open Sea, 
rather than an enclos’d Harbour, but is partly defended 
by two fmall Ifles, about two Leagues out from the 
Shore, one of which is called the Bird, and the other 
the Coney-IJland, f rom the Creatures they feverally pro- 
duce. And for its Security from Pirates, it has fix fe- 
veral Caftles on the Shore at convenient Diftances. In 
the Fields, near the Shore, there are many Heaps of 
Ruins and Pillars of Granite, which are Indications of 
fome great Buildings this Way ; which agrees vdth what 
Caufabon fays upon Strabo, that Tripoly was anciently a 
Clufter of three Cities, of which the firft was the Seat 
of the Aradii, the fecond of the Sidonians, and the 
third of the Tyrians, which may more probably be the 
Occafion of the Name, than the Joint-Intereft of three 
Cities in Building it, as is commonly faid. 
8. On the 14th, we refted at Tripoly, and on the 
15th our Muliteers having run away for fear of the 
Baffa of Sidon^s Servants, who prefs’d Mules every where 
for their Matter’s Service, we put ourfelves in a new 
Pofture of Travelling. We parted from Tripoly, and 
going clofe by the Sea-fide, we came in an Hour and 
half to Callemone, a Village juft under Bell-mount, and 
from hence putting forward, we met with a high Pro- 
montary that lay in our Way, and forc’d us to turn off 
to the Left-Hand into a narrow Valley, where we took 
up our Quarters under fome Olive-trees ; which Pro- 
montory feems to be that which is call’d by Strabo the 
Face of God, and which he affigns for the End of Mount 
Libanus. 
On the 1 6th, this Morning we crofs’d over the fore- 
mention’d Cape, which we did in an Flour, though 
it was very fteep and rugged, and we came into a nar- 
row Valley, which laid the Sea open again ; and near 
the Entrance is a fmall Fort that commands it, call’d 
Temfeida. And in half an Flour we came up with Patrone, 
which is thought to be Botrus, ficuate clofe by the Sea, 
in which we found fome Remains of a Church and Mo- 
naftery. In three Flours more we came to Gybile, cal- 
led by the Greeks Byblus, a Place once famous for the 
Birth and Temple of Adonis. It is compafs’d with a 
dry Ditch and a Wall, with fquare Towers at forty 
Yards Diftance, and on itsSouth-fide it has an old Cattle. 
There is nothing elfe remarkable in it but many 
Heaps of Ruins, and the fine Pillars in the Garden* 
near the Town. It is probably the Country of the Gi- 
Vol.il N^CXXVII. 
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this River, at certain Seafons of the Year, efpecially about 
the Feafts of Adonis, is of a bloody Colour, as he fays, 
from a Sympathy for the Death of Adonis, who was 
kill’d by a wild Boar in the Mountains out of which 
this Stream rifes •, for we found the Water of a very ‘ 
red Colour, which doubtlefs .was occafion’d by a Sort of 
Minium, or red Earth, wafti’d into the River by the 
Violence of the Rain. In an Hour and a Quarter we 
palled over the Foot of Mount Climar, and entered 
into a large Bay call’d Innia, where we found an old 
Stone-Bridge, and at the Bottom the high Mountains of 
Cajiravan, chiefly inhabited by Maronites, and famous 
for producing an excellent Sort of Wine. 
The Maronite Bifhop of Aleppo dwells here in a Con- 
vent, and there are many other fmall Convents on the 
Top of thefe Mountains. Towards the further Side of 
the Bay we came to a fquare Tower or Cattle, at which 
we paid a fourth Caphar, which is receiv’d by the Ma^ 
ronites, who are more exading Rogues than the Turks 
themfelves. In an Hour more we came to the River 
Lycus, call’d alfb fometimes Canis, whofe Name is de- 
riv’d from an Idol in the Form of a Dog or Wolf, 
which was worfliip’d and gave Oracles. The Body of 
it is fliewn to Strangers lying in the Sea, but the 
Head they fay is to be feen at Venice. This River, 
which is certainly different from Adonis, (though fome 
Moderns confound them j falls into the Sea from be- 
tween two Mountains very high and rocky, where we 
found a good Bridge of four Arches, and near the Foot 
of it, a Piece of white Marble inlaid in the Side of a 
Rock, with an Arab infeription, that the Emir Paccar^ 
dine was the Founder of it. 
Having pafs’d the River, we prefently attend the 
Rock hanging over it on that Side, where we met with 
a Path above two Yards broad, cut along its Side at a 
great Height above the Water, being the Work of the 
Emperor Antoninus, as appears by an Infeription engra- 
ved on a Table, plain’d in the Side of the natural 
Rock. In paffing this Way we faw ftrange antick 
Figures of Men carved in the Rock, in Mezzo 
relievo, and in Bignefs equal to the Life ; and 
clofe by each Figure there was a Table plain’d 
in the Side of the Rock, on which fomething had 
been inferib’d, though the Charadlers are generally 
now defac’d, which may deferve the further Scrutiny 
of fome Traveller. The Antonine Way extends about 
a Quarter of an Hour’s Travel ; after which you come 
upon a fmooth fandy Shore, which brings you in an 
Hour and half to the River Beroot, which has over it a 
Stone-Bridge of fix Arches; and on the other Side is • 
a Plain near the Sea, which is faid to be the Stage on 
which St. George duell’d and kill’d the Dragon, In 
Memory of which, there is a fmall Chappel built upon 
the Place, dedicated at firft to that Chriftian Hero, but 
now perverted to a Mofque. From hence in an Hour 
we arrived at Beroot, and quarter’d at a good Kane by 
the Sea-fide. 
10. On the i8th : This Day we fpent at Beroot, an- 
ciently called Berytus, (from which the Idol BaaUBerith 
is fuppbs’d to have had its Name) which was honour’d 
with many Privileges, and the new Name of Julia Felix by 
Auguftus. Its greateft Happinefs at prefent confifts in its 
10 F Situation, 
