NAPOLOSE. 2(59 
Cumins: from Grand Cairo; and noticed others chap. 
* . VI. 
reposing in the large oUve plantations near the ' — , — ' 
gates. The reader who wishes to know the Appeii'a"^^ 
various names possessed by this city m different ^'°"^" 
periods of its history, as well as to ascertain 
which among these names ought to be con- 
sidered its peculiar and most appropriate 
appellation, must be referred to the learned 
Reland\ Every thing relating to it is inter- 
esting ; but upon this subject, if all that Reland 
alone has wi'itten, in more than one part of his 
matchless work, were duly considered, the 
investigation would of itself constitute a copious 
dissertation. It is sufficient for the traveller to 
be informed, that, so long ago as the twelfth 
century, the elegant and perspicuous Phocas, 
himself visiting the place, and describing the 
city, speaks of it- as '^Sichar, the metropolis of 
the Samaritans, afterwards called Neapolis." 
Reland, from Josephus, Eusebius, Epiphanius, 
and Jerom^, writes it Sichem*. According 
(1) Reland. Palcest. Illustrat.Wh.in.tom. II. p. 1004. Traj.Bat. 1714. 
(2) 'H Tuv 'Sa//,apiu> ff/irpi^oXi; 'Si-f^ap h fUTa rxdra jcX'/ihTffx Niei'ToXis 
Kit/j^ir/i lAcoi Sy« ySauviwv. " Saraaritanorum metropolis Sichar; cui post- 
modum Neapoli nomen fuit ; inter duos montes sita." Phocee Dcscr. 
T. S. cap. 13. p. 17. ajmd Leo. Allat, Jy^^K. Colon. 1653. 
(3) " Transivit Sichem, (non ut plerique errantes legunt Sichar,) 
quae nuuc Neapolis appellatur." Hieronymtis in EpiUipliio Paula: 
Rel. Palast. lib. iii. torn. II. p. 1007. 
(4) Reland. ibid. p. 1004. 
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