COMPENDIUM 0mm GE0GRAPHY, ’ UR D AN I LE 4 1 MONSIE V L . 7 ) 0 Academy qf Interim » and Bel!“ Lettrea at P that of Science: at P alm ; Secretary to M0 - Serene [fig lawn the late D uke of Orleans. ANSLATED FROM THE FBEN ‘f ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS, A RI POL LY nm ucnn PROM 1 3083 o r m e n u ts A L AS m m u m “. so m e T , ; TH A MAP OF ROMAN BRITAIN. n on r u n H ts. [E ARNED JOHN HOBBIE Y, MA . A ' 'OR W I TH PROL EGOH I NA A ND s on s BY fl u TRANSL I . u zeuu m or e Use of Schools r Private Libraries, as well as f th . Bil eye n ight there command wherever stood Cit otold or m t y odem fim , the u ' ’ Otmightiest empire ; from the du tin d walls OfCu w t a Kha fl u , sen ofC th ian n, d ' hro e An Sm u cm nn by Temir c t n , B a y Ann nd LAlIOI o fGreat Mogul. Down to the Gow n Cnn soxu x ra ost And ab out Indian isle TAPROBANA . Pa d. L , 8. xi VOL . II . r c nom the last London Edition. Fz st Jmen an,f JVE W- YGIZH ‘ ‘ ' r n n . nx s o . 1 rv l u snu B! I . x nn x v a n. m n , , no m w n . ex" nou n, u Q . COMPENDIUM ANCIEN T GEOGRAPHY. A R A B I A . WE roceed to surve a vast countr p y y, which extends fro m the Euphrates on the o t h n rth, o the Erythrean Sea o n the sout ; a fo r ts w Gulf h ving i estern limitsthe A rabic , co mmo nly called the Red Sea ; and on the l other side the Persian Gulf, which, as we l as the recedin i an a kno n in p g, s inlet of the se w ti uit b the nam r n From an q y y e of Eryth ea . its situatio n bo rd r b o n three , e ed y water sides it is called in the lan ua e of the eo le , g g p p - - who inhabit it, Gezirate l Arab, the Island o r Peninsula of A rabia There are distin uish. g l a a ed two races in A rabia, as well by ine ge s by modes of life . The first and more ancient COMPENDIUM OF are r ut d to o r r in to Jectan or ep e we thei o ig , Kahtan so n o f Eher are called ure rabs , , p A , inhabit cities and have been o verned b , g y k n A t ri r eneration of Mo staru i gs. po s e o g hes r mix o are n t tatio nar , o ed A rabs, wh o s y, o r occu i d bv a riculture but erratic and p e g , asto ral reco nise for their author Ismael p , g , the so n o f A braham. It has been remarked, that no ne of the great A siatic po wers hav e su bjugated a natio n who se liberty seems de ~ fended b the nature o f their co tr desti y un y, o f w at r a d fo r the mo st art ulti tute e , n p unc vated ; and an expedition undertaken into A rabia b A u ustus had nearl o ccasione y g , y d e d structio n of a Ro man arm th e y, with out an advanta e resultin from y g g it. It is sufficiently kno wn that this co ntinent is divided into three regio ns distinguished fro m each other by the several epithets of Petra a the H a and the Desert A r , ppy, abia. What a ertains to each it is our pp , present ur to sh p pose o w . A BI R A A P E T R E A . From the co nfines o f Judaea, it extends to wards the so uth to the A rabic Gulf; which embraces it by two smaller gults that termi 5 ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY. t e re te und r the names ofHeroe note h g a r, e ' ’ obtes on the w an E lamtcs on the east. p est, d The limits o f Egypt terminate it to wards the T daan i arti west. he part co nfining o n Ju s p cularly distinguished under the name of Idm a, fo rmed from that o f Edo m, which was iven to Esau the son o f Ja ob. A nd g , c ' the po sterity o f this patriarch possessed a art of A rabia P trz e whe th o le o f p e , n e pe p I srael r s ecti li its of a nation s run , e p ng the m p g from a commo ancestor m ade a r n , g eat circuit thro u h th d rt t r ed s u g e ese , u n o th to the Elanite Gulf and then remo untin n rt , g o hward, d th M B entere by e co untry o f oab. ut the s rit o f Ismael w o deriv d th r po te y , h e ei name o m Nahaioth his eldest so n beco min v fr , , g ery rous the name o f Nabathai r vail nume , p e ed in Arabia Petrma ; which in the time o f A ugustus was go verned bya king seated atP ctrmwhence t d H av the co un ry rew its name. ing been co n r d b Tra an it was o ined to Pal que e y j , j estine ; and afterwards formed a particular province called the Third Palestine, and otherwise ' ' Sal aris of which the metro olis was th ad , p e m ancient residence of its kings. The odern cit is rac which is als name o f this y K , o co m men to many other places who se natural o . Bald in I ki o situatio n is very str ng w . ng f Je l m becomin master of this lace rusa e , g p , 0 COMPENDIUM OF l l ' gave it the name of Mount Roya . Tlns prince suffered much in traversing the tains so uth of Judasa, wli ch have caused this art of Idumaea to he called Gcbalm c fro m p , the term Gebel, o r Gebal, which in A rabic denotes a mo u ntain. On this ro ute, and be o t e mo untains he found a cit who y nd h , y, se name o f Sesame has re e stablished Sodom th o o under this fo rm in e opini n of s me. The erm tatio n ractised in the East p u p , o f the daled and zain (d and may have given r o to this o inio n which it w o ul a o m p , d appe r even to favo ur. But as, o n the destru ction of the cities seated in the valley which the lake s cover we find Lo t A sphaltite s, retreat to Sego r in the interval between the dawn and i o the sun this ositi the ris ng f , p o n must na cessarily he very near these cities ; and we d Se or or Zoara subsisti fin g , , ng in the name of Zo ar at the hither extremit o f t , y he lake, at the mo uth ofa river which asses b p y P am, d name Saphin. The cities known to antiquity in A rabia Petrma, are tho se o f which we have no mo dern informatio n. We must h wev r xce t , o e , e p E lana or Ailath as it a ars in t e Bible , , ppe h , and which . gave to o ne o f the arms which t rabi G forms at its ext it the he A c ulf rem y, ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY. l This lace which name of Sim E onites. p , a la n its is no w ruined, has no cultiv ted nd i vir t o u h it reserves the name of en o ns, h g p fleets of So lo i ah. A simr abcr whe nce the A l g , t d artur or O hir was an mon too k heir ep e f p , n o rt at the head o f the mo st easte rn Ope p , creek of the Elanite Gulf; and this po sitio n is ' er b o Th A rabic called B emce y Pt lemy. e name of Minet cd- dahab si nif in the Port , g y g o f Go ld, had reference to the riches that were there debarked o n the retu rn fro m Ophir. is lac is called Ca aa - l- Acaba T h p e no w l t c , w hich signifies the Castle o f the Descent; while the Blanite Gulf is named Baht-el — A caha.