For instance, at _Acon_ or _Ptolemais_ as call’d afterward, a city on the _Phœnician_ shore: it regain’d its first name and now is call’d St. _John_ of _Acres_, from a famous church there. The first city was probably built by our _Hercules_, at least he made one of these temples there, as I gather from the name of the place, coins and reports relating thereto. The _Greeks_ call it Ακη, and according to their custom, give it a _Greek_ original, from ακεισθαι, because says the _Etymologicum magnum_, _Hercules_ was there _heal’d_ of the bite of a serpent. _Stephanus_ of _Byzance_ the same, in the word _Ptolemais_; in the word _Ake_, he says, that _Claudius Julius_ in his vol. I. of the _Phœnician_ history, writes, “that it had its name from _Hercules_, who was order’d by the oracle to go eastward, ’till he came to a river, and found the herb _Colocasia_, which would cure his wound. He came to the river _Belus_, which here runs into the sea, and there found the herb.” _Salmasius_ in his _Plinian_ exercitations, affirms, the herb is _Dracunculus_; it grows in our gardens, called _Dragons_, from its likeness to a snake’s head and tongue; and being spotted like a snake. All this I can understand no otherwise, than that _Hercules_ made a serpentine temple on the side of this river, where the city _Acon_ was afterward built, and which took its name from this temple, as our _Hakpen_ at _Abury_; for עכן _Acan_ in the _Chaldee_, signifies a serpent, as we observed before. _Josephus_ informs us, by the river _Belus_ was the sepulchre of _Memnon_; which probably was made here in regard to the temple. When we come into _Greece_, we hear of _Hercules_ overcoming the _Lernean_ snake, which _Heraclides Ponticus_ writes had 50 heads. We may very well understand this of 50 stones, which compos’d the head, as our temple on _Overton-hill_ of 58. _Hephæstion_ II. recites from _Alexander_ the _Myndian_, that this _Hydra_ was turn’d into stone. Thus hints and reports are drop’d, which preserve the real truth invelop’d in fable; as was the _Greek_ method in all matters of antiquity.