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On leaving Pelusium we come to the Camp of Chabrias [Note], Mount Casius [Note], the temple of Jupiter Casius, and the tomb of Pompeius Magnus. Ostracine [Note], at a distance of sixty-five miles from Pelusium, is the frontier town of Ara-
bia. (13.) After this, at the point where the Sirbonian Lake [Note] becomes visible, Idumæa and Palæstina begin. This lake, which some writers have made to be 150 miles in circumference, Herodotus has placed at the foot of Mount Casius; it is now an inconsiderable fen. The towns are Rhinocolura [Note], and, in the interior, Rhaphea [Note], Gaza, and, still more inland, Anthedon [Note]: there is also Mount Argaris [Note]. Proceeding along the coast we come to the region of Samaria; Ascalo [Note], a free town, Azotus [Note], the two Jamniæ [Note], one of them in the in-
terior; and Joppe [Note], a city of the Phœnicians, which existed, it is said, before the deluge of the earth. It is situate on the slope of a hill, and in front of it lies a rock, upon which they point out the vestiges of the chains by which Andromeda was bound [Note]. Here the fabulous goddess Ceto [Note] is worshipped. Next to this place comes Apollonia [Note], and then the Tower of Strato [Note], otherwise Cæsarea, built by
King Herod, but now the Colony of Prima Flavia, established by the Emperor Vespasianus: this place is the frontier town of Palæstina, at a distance of 188 miles from the confines of Arabia; after which comes Phœnice [Note]. In the interior of Samaria are the towns of Neapolis [Note], formerly called Mamortha, Sebaste [Note], situate on a mountain, and, on a still more lofty one, Gamala [Note].
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