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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35242	A journey to Jerusalem, or, A relation of the travels of fourteen English-men in the year 1669 from Scanderoon, to Tripoly, Joppa, Ramah, Jerusalem, Bethlem, Jericho, the River Jordan, the Dead Sea, and back again to Aleppo : with an exact account of all the remarkable places and things in their whole journey / in a letter from T.B. in Aleppo to his friend in London ; together with a map and brief account of the ancient and modern state of those countries.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1672 (1672)	Wing C7341; ESTC R31344	27,941	139

Azotus and Gaza Maresa was the birth-place of the Prophet Micha Neer unto this town Judas Machabeus overthrew Gorgius Rhinocorura Rapha and Atedon are towns of no great note Of Ascalon Sir George Sandis writeth thus in his travels That it is a place now of no great Reckoning more then that the Turk doth keep there a garrison Venerable heretofore amongst the heathen for the Temple of Dagon and the Birth of Simiramis begotten of the Goddess Decreta who enflamed with the love of a certaine youth that Sacrificed unto her and having by him a daughter ashamed of her Incontinency did put him away and Exposed the Child to the desarts and Confounded with sorrow threw her self into a lake replenished which fish adjoyning to the City this Decreta is said to be that Dagon the Idol of the Agrotonites mentioned in the Scripture which signifieth the first of sorrow who had her Temple close by the Lake with her Image in the figure of a Fish excepting the Face which resembled a woman But the Infant nourished by Doves which brought her Milk from the pailes of the Pastures after became the wise of Ninus and Queen of Assyria whereupon she was called Semiramis which signifieth a dove in the Syrian tongue in memorial whereof the Babylonians did bear a Dove in their Ensignes confirmed by the Prophesie of Jeremiah who foretelling of the devastation of Judea Adviseth them to flee from the sword of the dove Azotes where was a Sumptuous Temple built to the Lieutenant to Demetrius eight miles beyond that stands Acharon or Ekron where Belzebub was worshipped to whom Ahaziah sent to enquire of his health Lastly Gaza or Aza one of the five Principal Cities belonging to the Palastines called Philistines in Scripture Gaza signifieth Strong and in the Persian language a Treasury So said to be called by Cambyses who Invading Egypt sent thither the riches Purchased in that Warr it was also called Constantia by the Emperour Constantine first famous for the acts of Sampson who lived about the time of the Trojan Warrs whose force and fortunes are said to have given to the Poets their invention of Hercules who lived not long before him And it was afterwards famous for two Wounds there received by Alexander the great and was then counted the Chief of Syria Also there lyeth Joppa now Jafta a Famous Mart Town and a good Haven where Jonah took Ship to fly to Tarsus where Peter Raised Dorcas from Death to Life and where he lying in the House of one Simon a Tanner was in a Vision Taught the Conversion of the Gentiles This City they report to have been built before the Flood Here Reigned Cepheus the Son of Phenix whose Daughter Andromeda was by Perseus delivered from a Sea Monster some of whose Bones the people had wont to shew to Strangers even till the Flourishing of the Romans Here lyeth Gath also the Country of the huge Giant Goliah Judea is the Chiefest part of Palastina and is of the same extent now as it was when it was the Kingdome of Judea and entertained the two great and Puissant Tribes of Judea and Benjamin It lyeth between the Midland-Sea and Lacus Asphaltitis or the Dead-Sea and betwixt Samaria and Idumea It took this name from the Tribe of Juda in which lyeth the once famous City Jerusalem Besides Jerusalem also there are in this Country divers other Towns and famous Cities as Jerico Turris Stratonis afterward named Cesarea Hebron formerly now Arbea also Mambre and Carioth that is to say a Town of four Men the Birth place of Judas Iscariot who betrayed our Saviour Jesus Christ Emaus and divers others and Beyond Jordan Makherus a Town with a strong Castle here stood also the Towns of Sodom and Gomorah which for their Sodomy and Abomination were utterly destroyed and consumed with Fire from Heaven and lyes now buried in that Cursed Lake Asphalites so named of the Bitumen where it Vomiteth called also the Dead-Sea perhaps in that it nourisheth no living Creature or for his heavy Waters hardly to be moved with any Wind so Extream Salt that whatsoever is thrown thereinto not easily Sinketh Vaspatian for a tryal causeth divers to be Cast in bound Hand and Foot who Floted Aloft as if Supported by some Spirit They say that Birds Flying over it fall in as if Inchanted or Suffocated with the Poyson of the Ascending Vapors Samaria lyeth in the Midst between Judea and Gallilea the Land is so called from the Metrapolis Samaria Built by Amry King of Israel and now called Sebasta which Towns in it are Sichem afterwards Named Neapolis Capernaum Betzaida and Chorazin Galilea lyeth between Mount Labanus and Samaria and is divided into upper and lower Galilea Upper Galilea bordereth upon Tyrus called otherwise Galilea-Gentium or the Heathenish Galilea Lower Galilea lyeth near unto the Lake of Tyberius and to Nazareth In it are the Towns of Naim Cana Nazareth and Gadara The Holy Land is seated between two Seas and the River Jordan it hath within it many Navigable Lakes and Meers abounding with Fish the River Jordan is called by the Hebrews Jordan and runneth through the Midst of this Countrey dividing it into two Parts St. Jerom Writeth that this River Springeth out of two Fountaines not far distant one from the other the one called Jor the other Dan shooting out like two Horns which meeting together make the Great River Jordan The Chief Mountains in the Holy Land are Mount Hermon lying in the East part thereof and Mount Tabor in the West both of them being very Great and High so that the other Hills about them are but Armes and Branches of them For the Mountaines Eball Betheron Mispa or Maspha and Bethel are reckoned under Mount Hermon Gilboa Gerezin Sarona and Mount-Carmel by the Sea side are counted under Mount Tabor There are also about Jerusalem Mount Sion Moriah Mount Olivet Mount Calvary and others Besides there are many Goodly Woods and Forrests full of all kind of Deer and many Wild Beasts In this Land especially in about and Jerusalem there were many Stately and Magnificent Buildings as Namely Mons Domus and the Castle of the Jebusites into which King David brought the Ark of the Lord where it remained till Solomons Temple was Finished The remainders and Ruines of these Buildings are yet to be seen to this Day yea it is said that in the very Place the Lord Christ Eat the Pascal Lamb with his Disciples There are also to be seen the Sepulchers of King David and other Kings of Juda there stood also the House of David which yet retaineth the Name of Davids Tower Upon Mount Moriah are yet to be seen some remainders of Mello Above all we must call to mind the most Excellent and Beautiful Temple of King Solomon upon which One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Men Wrought Seven Years continually till it was Finished The Glory and Magnificency thereof you may Read in the Scripture The Temple of the Sepulcher at