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SECT. I. A Scheme of the Sea of Genesaret, and the places adjacent.
COmparing this my little Map with others, since you see it to differ so much from them, you will expect, that I sufficiently prove and illustrate the situation of the places, or I shall come off with shame. I did that, if my opinion deceive me not, a good while ago in some Chapters in the Chorographical Century. I will here dispatch the sum total in a few lines.
I. a 1.1 Chammath was so called because of the warm baths of Tiberias: from which it was so very little distant, that as to a Sabbath days journey the men of Tiberias, and the men of Cham∣math might make but one City.
It is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Chammath of Gadara, not only to distinguish it from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Chammath of Pella, that is, Callirrhoe; but because a part of it was built upon the bank of Gadara, and another part upo•• the bank of Nephthali, or Tiberias, the bridge lying between: which shall be shewn presently.
Tiberias stood touching on the Sea; b 1.2 for on one side it had the Sea for a Wall.
Genesaret was a place near Tiberias where were Gardens and Paradises. They are the words of the Aruch.
Capernaum we place within the Country of Genesaret upon the Credit of the Evange∣lists, Matth. XIV. 34. and Mark VI. 53. compared with Joh. VI. 22, 24.
c 1.3 Taricha was distant from Tiberias thirty furlongs: Bethmaus four furlongs.
Magdala was beyond Jordan; for it is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Magdala of Gadara: and that which is said by the Talmudists, d 1.4 The Gadarens might, by the permission of R. Juda Nasi, come down to Chammath on the Sabbath, and walk through it, unto the furthest street, even to the bridge; is expressed and expounded by them in the same place, That the people of Magdala, by the permission of R. Juda Nasi, went up to Chammath, &c. From which single tradition one may infer, 1. That Magdala was on the bank of Gadara. 2. That it was not distant from Chammath above a Sabbath days journey. 3. That it was on that side of Chammath, which was built on the same bank of Gadara, by which it reached to the bridge above Jordan, which joyned it to the other side on the bank of Galilee.