. A description of the East, and some other countries . ON SYRIA. fultan Ibrahim lived in one of thefe grots by the fea fide for many talked as if he was a Perfian, but could give no latisfaitory ac-count of him, tho it is probable that he was Ibrahim Ben-Valid, thelixteenth kalif of the Ommiades, who lived in the year feven hundredforty three; but being vanquiQied by Marvan, and taken by him in Da-mafcus, was depofed, and afterwards paffed the reft of life in retire-ment There is nothing worth feeing here but the remains of a veryantient theatre, a plan and view of which are repref
. A description of the East, and some other countries . ON SYRIA. fultan Ibrahim lived in one of thefe grots by the fea fide for many talked as if he was a Perfian, but could give no latisfaitory ac-count of him, tho it is probable that he was Ibrahim Ben-Valid, thelixteenth kalif of the Ommiades, who lived in the year feven hundredforty three; but being vanquiQied by Marvan, and taken by him in Da-mafcus, was depofed, and afterwards paffed the reft of life in retire-ment There is nothing worth feeing here but the remains of a veryantient theatre, a plan and view of which are reprefented in the twenty-ninth plate; great part of the femicircle, and of the arches on whichthe feats were built are entire, and fo much of the feats within as tofhew the particular manner in which it was built. The walls are ofhewn ftone; and it plainly appears from the laying of the ftones, thatit was built under the government of the Greek kings. A is the plan; B afeilion ; C the upright of the femicircular part of the bafement within •E the vomitor
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