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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
Some doubt has arisen concerning the identity of the magnificent Grecian Ruins, discovered by Dr. Seetzan, in 1806, at Jerash, situated in the country lying to the eastward of the River Jordan: and whether they are those of Gerasa, or of Pella; two Cities, celebrated in Ancient History.
page 139 note a Jewish War, lib. iii. ch. 3, 3. [Whiston's Translation.]
page 139 note b War, vii. ch. 6, 1.; and xviii. 5, 1. St. John the Baptist was imprisoned, and decapitated, in this place: xviii. 5, 2.
page 139 note c This Tract is only once mentioned; and that in War, iii. 3, 3.
page 139 note d War, ii. 18, 1.
page 139 note e See the accompanying Sketch; Plate xix.
page 139 note f Jewish Antiquities, xiv. 3, 4.; and War, i. 6, 5.
page 139 note g St. Jeromi [Cellarius, lib. iii. c. 13. art, Peræa].
page 140 note h Mr. Burckhardt's Travels in Syria, and the Holy Land, 1812, p. 343, et seq. His rate of travelling was two geographic miles per hour, in direct distance.
page 140 note i Mr. Burckhardt, p. 269.
page 140 note k St. Jerom (Cellarius, lib. iii. c. 13. Galaaditis]. Saul raised the siege of it; 1 Samuel, chap. ii.
page 141 note l Mr. Burckhardt's Travels, p. 267. See also his Map, at page 51. El Hossn, I am assured, means The Fortress; and is used in that sense, in many places, in Syria.
page 141 note m I Samuel, xxxi. ver. 2. They were slain at Mount Gilboa, about six miles from Bethshan towards Sichem. [Cellarius, iii. 13. Samaritis.]
page 141 note n Stephanus [Cellarius, lib. iii. 13. Decapolis]. Bottein may possibly be the Betonim of Joshua, ch. xxiii. ver. 26; where it is mentioned with Ramoth-Mîzpeh, which probably stood in the same quarter.
page 141 note o Pliny, lib. v. 18.
page 141 note p Mr. Burckhardt's Travels, p. 269. He must have passed very near to it, in his way from Erbad to Om-Keis.
page 142 note q Eusebius [Cellarius, lib. iii. 13, Peræa].
page 143 note r Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Syria, &c. in 1817 and 1818, p. 319. The same Travellers, n i their way from Ammon to Jerash, crossed the Zerka, at two hours short of the latter place; p. 475. Mr. Burckhardt allows the same distance in his Map, at page 51. In the former Maps, the course of the Zerka is much too far northerly; being perhaps confounded with the Yabes.
page 143 note s Josephus, Jewish War, iii. 3, 3.
page 143 note t St. Matthew, ch. viii. ver. 28.
page 143 note u St. Mark, ch. v. ver. 1. St. Luke, ch. viii. ver. 26.
page 144 note x Antiq. i. ch. 6, 2.
page 144 note y Gadara, urbs trans Jordanem contra Scythopolim et Tiberiadem ad orientalem plagam, sita in monte, ad cujus radices aquae calidse erumpunt.—St. Jerom. [Cellarius, lib. iii. c. 13, Decapol.] And Pliny, lib. v. c. 18. “Gadara Hieromiace præfluente.”
page 144 note z See the very interesting descriptions of the Remains of Gadara, at Om-Keis, in Mr. Burckhardt's Travels, pp. 271, 272: and, more especially, in the Travels of Captains Irby and Mangles, pp. 297, 298.
page 145 note a When Mr. Burckhardt visited this place, in May 1812, it was totally deserted, the water cisterns being dried up. He says, that some of the Tombs had been enlarged, and rendered habitable, p. 271.
page 145 note b “And they arrived at the Country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Gallilee.” St. Mark, ch. iv. ver. 1; St. Luke, ch. viii. ver. 26.
page 145 note c St. Matthew, ch. iv. ver. 13; and ix. ver. I.
page 146 note d St. Matthew, ch. viii. ver. 34; and St. Luke, ch. viii. ver. 37.
page 146 note e Cellarius, lib. iii. c. 13, article Decapolis.
page 146 note f Antiquities, lib. xiii. 13, 5.
page 146 note g Obadiah is supposed to have written, during the Babylonish Captivity; and more than two hundred and fifty years before the death of Alexander.
page 147 note h For a Plan and detailed description of the Remains at Jerash, see Mr. Burckhardt's Travels in Syria, &c. page 252 to 264; and also the Travels of Captain Irby and Captain Mangles, p. 317.