[272] _Published_ 1656, by Dan. King. * * * * * More might be said, but my business, of another nature, makes me take off my hand. I am _Yours_, etc. OF TROAS What place is meant by that Name. Also, of the situations of _Sodom_, _Gomorrha_, _Admah_, _Zeboim_, in the dead Sea. TRACT X SIR, _To your Geographical Queries, I answer as follows._ In sundry passages of the new Testament, in the _Acts of the Apostles_, and Epistles of S. _Paul_, we meet with the word _Troas_; how he went from _Troas_ to _Philippi_ in _Macedonia_, from thence unto _Troas_ again: how he remained seven days in that place; from thence on foot to _Assos_, whither the Disciples had sailed from _Troas_, and there, taking him in, made their Voyage unto _Cæsarea_. Now, whether this _Troas_ be the name of a City or a certain Region seems no groundless doubt of yours: for that 'twas sometimes taken in the signification of some Country, is acknowledged by _Ortelius_, _Stephanus_ and _Grotius_; and it is plainly set down by _Strabo_, that a Region of _Phrygia_ in _Asia minor_ was so taken in ancient times; and that, at the Trojan War, all the Territory which comprehended the nine Principalities subject unto the King of _Ilium_, Τροίη λεγομένη, was called by the name of _Troja_. And this might seem sufficiently to salve the intention of the description, when he came or went from _Troas_, that is, some part of that Region; and will otherwise seem strange unto many how he should be said to go or come from that City which all Writers had laid in the Ashes about a thousand years before. All which notwithstanding, since we reade in the Text a particular abode of seven days, and such particulars as leaving of his Cloak, Books and Parchments at _Troas_: And that S. _Luke_ seems to have been taken in to the Travels of S. _Paul_ in this place, where he begins in the _Acts_ to write in the first person, this may rather seem to have been some City or special Habitation, than any Province or Region without such limitation. Now that such a City there was, and that of no mean note, is easily verified from historical observation. For though old _Ilium_ was anciently destroyed, yet was there another raised by the relicts of that people, not in the same place, but about thirty Furlongs westward, as is to be learned from _Strabo_.