Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . sM half nearly to the hot springs. The waters of thesesprings are salt, and too hot for immediate use, butthej are still much resorted to by invalids. CESAKEA. BTKATOS TOWEE. Cesarea was situated on the coast, 28 miles northof Joppa, and QG fi-om Jerusalem via Joppa. In Strabos time there was on this part of thecoast merely a town,
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . sM half nearly to the hot springs. The waters of thesesprings are salt, and too hot for immediate use, butthej are still much resorted to by invalids. CESAKEA. BTKATOS TOWEE. Cesarea was situated on the coast, 28 miles northof Joppa, and QG fi-om Jerusalem via Joppa. In Strabos time there was on this part of thecoast merely a town, called Stratos tower, witha landing-place. Afterwards Herod the Great builta city here, on which the utmost care and expensewere lavished ; a vast breakwater protected its the Herodian kings resided, also Festus Felix,and other Roman Procurators of Judea. Here werethe headquarters of the military forces of the pro-^^nce. The population consisted chiefly of Jews,Greeks, and Romans. Constant feuds took place be-tween the Jews and Greeks. At the Jewish S}Tia-gogue the Old Testament was read in Greek. At Cesarea, Yespasian was declared Emperor ofRome. This city was a place of considerable impor-tance even as late as the time of the Crusades; butit i
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