This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ... and the Jordanes or Jordan in the South. Of these the Orontes3 is much the longest; it rises in the angle formed by the Libanus and Anti-Libanus, and enters the Mediterranean opposite the Island of Cyprus. It is a rapid and troubled river, and is said to have been formerly called Typhon: it was also named Axius by the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ... and the Jordanes or Jordan in the South. Of these the Orontes3 is much the longest; it rises in the angle formed by the Libanus and Anti-Libanus, and enters the Mediterranean opposite the Island of Cyprus. It is a rapid and troubled river, and is said to have been formerly called Typhon: it was also named Axius by the Macedonians after the great river of their own country, an appellation which it still preserves in that of Aaszy. The Leontes Liettani rises in M. Libanus not far from the preceding, and flows South Westward into the Mediterranean between Tyre and Sidon. The Jordanes Orden or Sherya rises in a little lake, which, owing to its round figure, was called Phiala from the Greek word fiaXy phiala, and lies on that part of Anti-Libanus which is named Ml. Hermon: hence it flows through Samachonites L. Hoolya, which is thought to be the same with the waters of Merom mentioned in the Bible, and subsequently enters the Lake of Gennesareth or Cinereth, which was also called the Sea of Tiberias or of Galilee L. of Tabaria. The Jordan after leaving this lake flows through a spacious valley called Aulon or Magnus Campus El Ghor, until it is lost in the Lacus Asphaltites, which was also known by the names of Mare Mortuum and Salsum Bahr Lout, Al-Motana, or Dead Sea. The fertile Vale of Siddim, 3 Jam pridem Syrus in Tiberim defiuxit Orontes Et linguam et mores Juv. Sat. III. 62. remarkable in Holy Writ for the battle of the four kings with five, is said by the Sacred Historian to be the same with the Salt Sea; and from its being stated in the same place that the Vale was well watered, previous to the Divine Vengeance overtaking the wicked cities which stood in it, it has been surmised that the Jordan flowed farther Southward, and emptied itself into that arm o...
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