. A description of the East, and some other countries . ON SYRIA. imagined it to be the old Antaradus, tlioitis rather more to the north thantheiiland; but the conveniency of the river, and a fmall harbour forboats, makes it probable that it vvas fituated in that place. A little fur-ther, to the weft of a wood, and direftly oppolite to Aradus, there is alow fandy hill near the (hoar, which extends to a very narrow vale be-tween rocky ground; where the road croffes it there is a channel ofa fmali flream, in which was no water ; but below it the watercomes out as from a fpring, and runs into a l
. A description of the East, and some other countries . ON SYRIA. imagined it to be the old Antaradus, tlioitis rather more to the north thantheiiland; but the conveniency of the river, and a fmall harbour forboats, makes it probable that it vvas fituated in that place. A little fur-ther, to the weft of a wood, and direftly oppolite to Aradus, there is alow fandy hill near the (hoar, which extends to a very narrow vale be-tween rocky ground; where the road croffes it there is a channel ofa fmali flream, in which was no water ; but below it the watercomes out as from a fpring, and runs into a large channel which has awall on each fide; and there is a door-cafe made of three ftones overthe fountain; this is called Ein-el-Hye, [The Serpent Fountain]. It isnot unlikely that this fhould be Enydra, mentioned by Strabo as northof Marathus, and probably it was the watering place on the continent forthe ifle of Aradus, for it feems as if they had great plenty of water here;below it there is a mill; the ftream which continually turns it, feems tohav
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