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TRAVELS

OR

OBSERVATIONS

RELATING TO

SEVERAL PARTS

OF THE

LEVANT.

IN TWO PARTS.

VOLUME II.- -PART I.

AMMOLIAD

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CHAPTER I.

Geographical Observations relating to some Parts of Syria, Phænice, and the Holy Land.

I AM NOW

AM now entering upon those countries, where Mr Maundrell has travelled before me; and, as it may be presumed that every curious person is acquainted with that author, I shall only take notice of such things as seem to have been either mistaken or omitted by him.

Latikea, then, the first maritime city which he describes, was also the most northern part of Syria that I had an opportunity of seeing. It is situated upon a rising ground, with a full prospect of the sea, and was called by the ancients Laodicea ad mare*, and Asʊxa Axtŋ, from the white cliffs that lie on each side of it. From the citadel, we have a pleasant, though distant view of the mountains of Caramania and Cassius to the north; and of Jebilee, Merkab, Bannias, as far as Tortosa, to the south. The founder could not

VOL. II.

* Είτα Λαοδικεία,

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επί τη θαλατη καλλιςα εκτισμένη και ευλίμενος

Πόλις, χώρον τε έχουσα πολυοινον προς τη αλλη ευκαρπια. Strab. Geog. 1. xvi. P. 1091. Exclusus ab Antiochia Dolabella-Laodiceam, que est in Syria ad mare, se contulit. Cic. Epist. 1. xii. ep. 14.

Λαοδίκην θ' ή κειται επ' ηιονεσσι θαλασσης.

Dionys. Perieg. ver, 915.

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