. A description of the East, and some other countries . north there are remains of fides of a rufticated building, thewalls of which are three feet thick; it feems to have been built aboutthe fame time as Tortofa : There are very few houfes on the ifland, ex-cept in the two caftles C, which are defended by fome cannon againftthe corfairs: The fhipping that come here take in tobacco, of whichthere is a great quantity growing on the continent; they carry it to.^gypt, and, when there is not a fupply, they load with wood for thatcountry. CHAP. XXVII. Of Antaradus, Marathus, and other places i
. A description of the East, and some other countries . north there are remains of fides of a rufticated building, thewalls of which are three feet thick; it feems to have been built aboutthe fame time as Tortofa : There are very few houfes on the ifland, ex-cept in the two caftles C, which are defended by fome cannon againftthe corfairs: The fhipping that come here take in tobacco, of whichthere is a great quantity growing on the continent; they carry it to.^gypt, and, when there is not a fupply, they load with wood for thatcountry. CHAP. XXVII. Of Antaradus, Marathus, and other places in the wayto Tripoli. WE fet out from Tortofa, and about a mile fouth of it came toa broad bed of a torrent, which was then dry; there is a largeruined bridge of three or four arches over it, which is a furlongto the weft of the road; on the fouth fide of it is a raifed ground, onwhich I thought I faw fome figns of foundations of walls, and therefore • Gen. X. i8. I 2 Kings xix. 13. Ifa, xxxvii. 13. 9. Jer. xlix. 23. Ezek. xxvii. 11. imagined.
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