palm-trees, and watered by numerous springs, and those of Emmaüs3612, Lydda3613, Joppe, Acrabatena3614, Gophna3615, Thamna3616, Bethleptephene3617, Orina3618, in which formerly stood Hierosolyma3619, by far the most famous city, not of Judæa only, but of the East, and Herodium3620, with a celebrated town of the same name. (15.) The river Jordanes3621 rises from the spring of Panias3622, which has given its surname to Cæsarea, of which we shall