. A description of the East, and some other countries . onged to them when tliey traded to thefe quarters of a mile eaft of the town is a hill called Saida-Mar Elias;at the foot of it there is a village called El-hara, and about three quar-ters of the way up the hill, there is a mofque with a lepulchre Jeb-Zachariah ; on the top of the hill there is a ciftern called by the name ofElias. The Turks have a publick praying place here. On the right Ifaw Ein-Dielp, on the left Avara, and further El-Helely. Sidon is the place of rcfidence of a pafha, and there are in it agreat numb
. A description of the East, and some other countries . onged to them when tliey traded to thefe quarters of a mile eaft of the town is a hill called Saida-Mar Elias;at the foot of it there is a village called El-hara, and about three quar-ters of the way up the hill, there is a mofque with a lepulchre Jeb-Zachariah ; on the top of the hill there is a ciftern called by the name ofElias. The Turks have a publick praying place here. On the right Ifaw Ein-Dielp, on the left Avara, and further El-Helely. Sidon is the place of rcfidence of a pafha, and there are in it agreat number of new well built houfes. The trade here is carried onentirely by the French, the export being chiefly raw filk, cotton, andcorn. Their conful obliges them to live all in one Kane, in which theJefuits, Capuchins, and the fathers of the Holy Sepulchre, have theirrefpeftive convents. Going out of Sidon, I faw fevcralfepulchral grots cut in the rock atthe foot of the hills; fome of them are adorned with pilafters, and paintedin a very handfome A D E S- OBSERVATIONS A DESCRIPTION O F The EAST, ^c. BOOK the Second. Of Syria and Mesopotamia. C H A P. I. Of Syria in general. Of the places between Si don and Bayreut. SYRIA extends northwards from Palsftine to the mountains ofAmanus and Taurus, having the Euphrates and Arabia Deferta tothe eaft ; and the Mediterranean fea to the weft ; it was dividedinto feveral parts, which chiefly had their names from the principal ci-ties of thofe territories. Palsftine indeed is looked on by feme as a partof Syria. Phoenicia was another diftrid, part of which was in the HolyLand, and began, as fome fay, about the fouthern part of the territoryof Tyre, or, as others afBrm, near Ca^farca by the fea, and extendednorthward to the river Eleutherus beyond Tripoli. Thefe countries wereantiently divided into fmall kingdoms, fuch as were thofe of Daniafcus,Hamath, Zobah, and Geflier ; and in Phcenicia, thofe of Tyre, Sidon,and Aradus. They were a
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