V. 
230 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, to Agrippa, as well as of the inhabitants of 
Trachonitis\ Gaulon^, Hippos^, and Gadara*; the 
sum total of which he has not mentioned,) all 
of whom were mountaineers of Anti-Libanus 
and Hernion, or restless tribes of freebooters 
ivoui Eastern Syria ; unable, as Jo^e/j/m^ describes 
them, to sustain a life of peace, and exhibiting, 
eighteen hundred years ago, the same state of 
society which now characterizes the inhabitants 
of this country. 
After reluctantly retiring from this limpid 
Lake, we returned to the castle. Here, within 
the spacious and airy apartment prepared for 
our reception, we mutually expressed our hopes 
of passing at least one night free from the 
attacks of vermin ; but, to our dismay, the Sheik, 
being informed of our conversation, burst into 
(1) Trachonitis was the country ntdiV Damascus, to the east of 
Herman and Anti-Libanus. 
(2) Gaulon gave its name to the district called Gaulonitis, beyond 
Jordan, on the eastern side of the Lake of Gennesareth. It was one 
of the six cities of refuge, 
(3) A city opposite to Tiberias, upon the Lake Gennesareth, at the 
south-western extremity of a ridge of mountains bearing the same 
name, and being a branch of the chain of Herman. 
(4) A city beyond Jordan, distant seven miles and a half from the 
Lake Gennesareth. Like Hippos, it gave its name to a small province. 
The hot baths of Gadara are mentioned by Epiphanhis. Gadara, ac- 
cording to Polyliiis, was one of the strongest cities of the country. 
