8. _Pag. 117._ ΑΓΑΘΑΝΓΕΛΟΣ ΑΒΙΛΗΝΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΔΕΚΑΠΟΛΕΟΣ, _Agathangelus Abilenus, Decapolitanus, Patronymice_. There were in these Parts two Cities known by the Name of _Abila_; to distinguish which, the one was called _Abila Lysaniæ_, from the Name of the Tetrarch: St. _Luke_, ch. 3. 1. and is placed by _Ptolemy_ (in his _Cælosyria_) about mid-way between _Damascus_ and _Heliopolis_: The other in _Judæa_, called _Abila ad Jordanem_, described by _Josephus_ in many Places, to lie over-against _Jericho_, near the _Dead-Sea_. _Decapolis_ was so called from its Ten Cities, enumerated by _Pliny_ (_lib._ 5. 18.) And with them he reckons up, among others, the _Tetrarchy_ of _Abila_, in the same _Decapolis_: Which demonstrates the _Abila Decapolis_ and _Abila Lysaniæ_ to be the same Place. And tho' it cannot be denied, but that some of _Pliny_'s Ten Cities are not far distant from that near _Jordan_; yet it doth not appear that ever this other had the Title of a _Tetrarchy_. Here it is to be observed, that what _Pliny_ calls _Decapolis_, _Ptolemy_ makes his _Cæle Syria_; and the _Cæle Syria_ of _Pliny_, is that part of _Syria_ about _Aleppo_, formerly call'd _Chalcidene_, _Cyrrhistice_, &c. What this Town of _Teibe_ was anciently call'd, is not so easily conjectured: But if the Numbers of _Ptolemy_ may be confided in, it is very near the Situation of a City he calls _Oriza_; and perhaps his _Adada_ may be our _Soukney_, and his _Rhæsapha_ what is now called _Arsoffa_. It is taken for granted, that Old _Aleppo_ was anciently the City of _Berrhæa_, and there wants not ancient Testimony to prove it; which being granted, I think I may without scruple conclude, that _Andrene_ (_pag. 122._ and 133.) is the Ruins of the City of _Androna_; and _Esree_ (_pag. 135._) that of _Seriane_, both mentioned in the Itinerary of _Antoninus_, in the Journey _à Dolicâ Seriane_. But this whole Country is laid about half a Degree more Southerly than it ought, by _Ptolemy_, who places _Berrhæa_ in Lat. 36 _deg._ For the Meridian Altitude of the Tropical Sun at _Aleppo_ is found there but 77 _deg._ whence the Latitude 36 _deg._ 30 _min._ as it was observed, _Anno_ 1680. by three several Quadrants, in the presence of a curious Gentleman, to whom I am obliged for this Communication.