APPENDIX. 
No. I. 
DISCOVERY, BY COLONEL CAPPER, 
OF THE EXISTENCE OF 
ANTIENT PAGAN SUPERSTITIONS IN MOUNT LIBANUS, 
PARTICULARLY THOSE WHICH RELATE TO THE WORSHIP OF VENUS. 
1 HE superstition discovered by Colonel Capper 
can be considered as nothing- less than the ex- 
piring embers of those holocausts which once 
blazed in honour of Sidonian j4startl'\ The 
Venus of Lihanus was called Asthoreth, from the 
(l) Astart6, Aslarothy Asldaroth, Asthorefh, Astara, fSee the 
Inscriptions communicated to Part I. of these Travels, hy Charles 
Kklsall, ^sy. from the Cimmerian Bosporus, jo. 402. Second Edition.) 
Aestar, f whence our word Aestf.r : See chap. X. p. 317. Note 2, of the 
fmmer I'oiume : also GaleV (Mirt of the Gentiles, B. ii. c. 2.) 
Nothing: tends more to elucidate and simplify Heathen mythology, than 
the constantly bearing in recollection the identity of all those Pagan 
idols which were distinguished by these several names ; (to which may 
be added the other less similar appellations of the same Phccnician 
Goddess;) viz. Aler satis, Juno, Isis, Hecate, Proserpine, Ceres, DianUy 
Europa, ( Cicer. dc Nalur. Dear, lib.'m.) J'enxis, Urania, Dercetis, 
{ Ovid. Metam. lib. iv.) axul Lu7ia. The Arabians called her Alilat, 
and still preserve their Alituia. Among the Chaldeans she was called 
MilUta. 
