In the Map of the Dead Sea we meet with the Figure of the Cities which were destroyed: of _Sodom_, _Gomorrha_, _Admah_ and _Zeboim_; but with no uniformity; men placing them variously, and, from the uncertainty of their situation, taking a fair liberty to set them where they please. For _Admah_, _Zeboim_ and _Gomorrha_, there is no light from the Text to define their situation. But, that _Sodom_ could not be far from _Segor_ which was seated under the Mountains near the side of the Lake, seems inferrible from the sudden arrival of _Lot_, who, coming from _Sodom_ at day break, attained to _Segor_ at Sun rising; and therefore _Sodom_ is to be placed not many miles from it, not in the middle of the Lake, which against that place is about eighteen miles over, and so will leave nine miles to be gone in so small a space of time. The Valley being large, the Lake now in length about seventy English miles, the River _Jordan_ and divers others running over the Plain, 'tis probable the best Cities were seated upon those Streams: but how the _Jordan_ passed or winded, or where it took in the other Streams, is a point too old for Geography to determine. For, that the River gave the fruitfulness unto this Valley by over watring that low Region, seems plain from that expression in the Text,[275] that it was watered, _sicut Paradisus et Ægyptus_, like _Eden_ and the Plains of _Mesopotamia_, where _Euphrates_ yearly overfloweth; or like _Ægypt_ where _Nilus_ doth the like: and seems probable also from the same course of the River not far above this Valley where the Israelites passed _Jordan_, where 'tis said that _Jordan overfloweth its Banks in the time of Harvest_. [275] Gen. 13. 10. That it must have had some passage under ground in the compass of this Valley before the creation of this Lake, seems necessary from the great current of _Jordan_, and from the Rivers _Arnon_, _Cedron_, _Zaeth_, which empty into this Valley; but where to place that concurrence of Waters or place of its absorbition, there is no authentick decision. The probablest place may be set somewhat Southward, below the Rivers that run into it on the East or Western Shore: and somewhat agreeable unto the account which _Brocardus_ received from the Sarazens which lived near it, _Jordanem ingredi Mare Mortuum et rursum egredi, sed post exiguum intervallum à Terra absorberi_.