A description of the East, and some other countries

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Identifier: gri_33125009339611 (find matches)
Title: A description of the East, and some other countries
Year: 1743 (1740s)
Authors: Pococke, Richard, 1704-1765 Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810
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Publisher: London : Printed for the author, by W. Bowyer : And sold by J. and P. Knapton, W. Innys, W. Meadows, G. Hawkins, S. Birt, T. Longman, C. Hitch, R. Dodsley, J. Nourse, and J. Rivington
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ON SYRIA. 189 ■ference. Pliny fays, that it was divided by the river Orontes, fromwhich one would conclude that there was a fuburb to the north of theriver, of which there are now no figns. The hill to the fouth weft B, ishigh and very fteep ; that to the eaft C is lower, and there is a fmallplain on the top of it. The walls are built along the height of the hills, and to the fouthwhere there is no defcent, the approach is rendered difficult by a deepfoffee: Thefe hills are divided at E, by a very deep narrow bed of amountain torrent, acrofs which a wall F, is built, at leafl fixty feet high;there are two views of it in the twenty-feventh plate; C is that to theweft, and D is the view to the eaft; it had an arch below to let thewater pafs, which is in part built up; fo that a great body of water oftenlies againfl the wall ; it is called the iron gate, which name it mighthave from fome grates or fences of iron to the arch, by which the wa-ters pafled under it. About half way up on ea

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