162 TRAVELS TO THE EAST, 
place uninhabited. A Rubus (bramble) grew in th 
ruins, which I had not feen before. T. he hills coi 
menced again, through which Alexander the Gre 
made a road for his army to pafs. We foll°' v 
this road above half an hour ; it tvas of differ^ 
breadths, from half a fathom to three fathoms ^ 
fome places. This was a labour which required 
Alexander to accomplilh. It is certainly one oi * 
mod advantageous places in the world to obitr 1 
the pafl'age of an army ; for on one fide are >° 
ceffible rocks, and on the other the great oce< 
whole ihores are fortified with perpendicular m 
by which there is no efcaping. At four oYl° c . 
the afternoon we came to the mod remarkable p 1J . 
on this road, viz. the famous Wells, which are ‘ 
travellers called Solomon’s, from which Tyre | ^ 
merly received water through an aquaeduft 
are three, all cut out in a mountain of fand-fion e > j 
the diftance of a gun-lhot from the fea. r l *° r , 
them are fquare, one fituated below the 0 ^ 
each of about fix feet fquare. The third is ^ 
moll remarkable: this is round, and is at leah^, 
feet in diameter : it hath two outlets, each ^ 
filling of a narrow channel, to Which the f % 
runs through two round apertures, and falls 
fmall bafon ; from this place the water at 
ferves to turn fome mills; but it formerly r an .; c li 
the aqueeduft, cut out in the fand-llone hill, )\ 
carried the water for the fpace of two leagues to 
the remains of this being dill to be feen. The* 
of the ruins of this aqiueduft is covered with 
ite, fuch as is to be found in the eadern aqu^ j s % 
having been there depofited by the water : 1111 
noble piece of antiquity, the work of a /■ 
and the remains of a potent people, ihey 
