The great historical, geographical and poetical dictionary being a curious miscellany of sacred and prophane history : containing, in short, the lives and most remarkable actions of the patriarchs, judges, ... heresiarchs, ... emperors, ... and all those who have recommended themselves to the world ... together with the establishment and progress both of religious and military orders ... ; [with] The genealogy of several illustrious families in Europe ; The fabulous history of the heathen gods and heroes ; The description of empires, kingdoms ... / collected from the best historians, chronologers, and lexicographers ... but more especially out of Lewis Morery ... his sixth edition corrected and enlarged by Monsieur Le Clark ... now done into English ; to which are added by way of supplement ... the lives ... and writings of the illustrious families of our English, Scotch and Irish nobility ... clergy ; as also an exact description of these kingdoms ... by several learned men ; wherein are inserted the last five years historical and geographical collections of Edmond Bohun ... never extant till in this work.

• Olaus, or Olac, King of Norway, lived in the XIth. Centu∣ry. He was very zealous in establishing the Christian Religion in his Dominions, and finding that many of his Subjects addi∣cted to Magick opposed themselves to his Design, he banish'd them. Canutus, King of England and Denmark, who had once dethroned him, was the occasion that some of his subjects mur∣thered him. Adam de Bremen.
• * Oldcastle (Sir John) famous in our English History for be∣ing a zealous Abettor of Wickliff's Doctrine. He was severely

• persecuted, and hid himself in Woods; but being at last taken, was put to Death in 1416. which he underwent with great Courage.
• Oldenburg, Lat. Oldenburgum, a City in Westphalia, the Capi∣tal of an Earldom of the same Name seated upon the River Hont, which runs into the Weser, 25 m. from Bremen to the West, and 40 from Embden to the East, almost totally ruined by Fire in 1676, the very day the Citizens were to have taken their Oath of Allegiance to the King of Denmark. The County of Olden∣burg is in the Circle of Westphalia, between East-Friezland to the West, the Dukedom of Bremen to the East, the Bishoprick of Munster to the South, and the German Ocean to the North, ve∣ry fruitfull in Pastorage and Cattle, but the Air cold and foggy. This for a long time was under Counts of its own, derived from Wittekindus, the first Duke of the Saxons. Walepert, one of his Nephews, being the first Earl of Oldenburg, which Line wholly failing in 1676, it hath been annexed to the Crown of Denmark, that King being descended from the Eldest Branch of the Earls of Oldenburg.
• * Oldenburg, a Town of Denmark, in the Dutchy of Hol∣stein and Principality of Wageren. Once a Bishop's See. It lies near the Baltick, 30 miles N. of Lubeck. Lon. 31. 51. Lat. 54. 44.
• * Oldendorp, a Town in Germany, in the Circle of the lower Saxony, and Dutchy of Lunenburg, and famous for a Battle fought near it, in 1633. It stands on the River Wenaw and Esca, 19 m. N. of Zell, and almost 26 S. W. of Lunenburg. Lon. 30. 00. Lat. 53. 16.
• * Oldenpo, Lat. Oldenpoa, a Country in Livonia, having Let∣tonia to the S. Esthonia to the W. Alemak to the N. and Mosco∣vy to the E. It is subject to the Swedes, and their chief Town is Tonspat.
• Oldenzeel, Lat. Odesalia, a City of Over-yssel, in the Low-Countries, taken by the Hollanders in 1626, and by them dis∣mantled, having been a strong Place before.
• * Oldeslo, a Town of Denmark, in the Dutchy of Holstein, and Principality of Wageren. It stands on the River Trave, 16 miles W. of Lubeck and 24 N. E. of Hamburg. Lon. 30. 13. Lat. 54 14.
• * Oldham (John) was, as I am told, a Minister's Son, bred at Edmund-Hall in Oxford; was the Darling of the Muses; a pi∣thy, sententious, elegant and smooth Writer. His Translations exceeded the Original; and his Invention seems matchless. His Satyr on the Jesuites is of special Note; and he may justly be said to have excelled all the Satyrists of the Age. He died in the prime of his years in the Earl of Kingston's Family; and was honoured with a Funeral Elegy, by Mr. Dryden, the Poet Lau∣reat, wherein he calls him the Marcellus of our Tongue.
• * Old-Sarum, a Borough Town of Under-ditch Hundred in the S. E. parts of Wiltshire, a place much decayed since the rise of New-Sarum; yet it retains its Privileges and sends two mem∣bers to Parliament.
• Olenus, a Greek Poet of the City Dymus in Achaia, the Au∣thor of some famous Hymns which they were used to sing in the Isle of Delos, during the Ceremonies they performed for the Recovery of the Sick, by sprinkling upon them the Dust taken up from the Tombs of Opis or Cybele, whom the Greeks call'd Hecaerge, that is to say, one that hath the Power to work at a great distance. Some take him to have been the Inventer of Hexameters. Pausan. in Phoc.
• Oleron, Lat. Ilurona, Elarona, Loronensium Civitas, a City of Bearn, in the South of France, being a Bishop's See under the Arch-bishop of Aux, seated upon the Gave, 10 Leagues from Tarbes to the W. 18 from Dax to the S. and 24 from Pampelona to the N. This City was great and fair formerly, but was rui∣ned by the Normans in the IX. Century; and rebuilt by Centullus, Viscount of Bearn and Oleron. The Gave of Oleron riseth from the Pyrenaean Hills, from two Springs, viz. le Gave d' Aspe to the W. and le Gave d'Ossau to the East, which unite at this City. De Marca's Hist. de Bearn. Arnold. Oihenart. lib. 3. No∣tit. utriúsque Vascon. cap. 13. San. Marth. Gall. Christ. Thuan. &c.
• Oleron, Lat. Uliarius, an Isle on the Coast of Aquitain, belon∣ging to that Dutchy, upon the Shoar of Xaintonge, against the mouth of the River Charonte, two Leagues from the Conti∣nent, being five Leagues in length from N. to S. and two from East to West, the Circuit being about twelve. It hath a strong Fortress on the South-side, and is famous for the Sea-laws here published by Richard I. of England, at his return from the Ho∣ly-land, in the fifth year of his Reign, when this Island was un∣der that Crown.
• Olgerdus, Great Duke of Lithuania, succeeded his Father Gedimin in 1325, who had the Title of Great Duke bestowed upon him, because of his Conquests which he had carried as far as the Euxine Sea. He died in 1381, at Jagellon. His Son suc∣ceeded him; who married a Christian Princess, and being bap∣tized took the Name of Uladislaus. Hornius Orb. Imper.
• Olibrius (Flavius Anicius) was a Person of that considerati∣on, that Leo, Emperor of the East, gave him in Marriage Placi∣da, the Daughter of Valentinian, whom Genserick, King of the Vandals, had sent back to Constantinople. He afterwards succee∣ded Anthemius in the Empire, by the favour of Ricimer, but he did not long enjoy that Dignity; for seven months after he was killed by the Goths, who put Glycerius in his Place in 472. He left a Daughter called Juliena, married to Ariebindus, whom the People would have put in the room of Anastasius. Cassiodor. & Marcellin. in Chron.
• * Olika, a City in Volhinia, a Province of Poland, 5 m. S. E. of Lucka. It sustain'd a Siege against the Cossacks in 1651, and repulsed them.
• Olinda, a maritime City of Brasil, in America, the capital of the Government of Pharnambuc. It is seated upon a Hill, near the mouth of the River Bibiribe, with a Fortress called St. George, and a capacious Haven. The Hollanders took it in 1629, but afterwards deserting it, the Portuguese took possession of it again. It is a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of St. Salva∣dore. * This is one of the most noted Cities in America. It stands on a rising Ground; encompasses several small Hills, but has more without: So that it's uncapable of being fortified. The Jesuits College was built by Sebastian, King of Portugal. It has two other Monasteries, eight Churches, and 2000 Inhabitants besides the Clergy and their Servants. The Haven is little and has a bad entrance, but safe within. The neighbouring Soil is not sufficient to maintain the Inhabitants, but their Su∣stenance is brought from other parts of Brasil, the Canaries and Portugal. In 1595. James Lancaster, an English Mariner, entred this Port with eleven Ships and 270 Seamen, took the Castle at first Assault, though defended by 600 men, with seven Brass Cannon. He plundered about 100 Houses under the Castle. Staid 34 days, but could not take the Town. He loaded his own, three Dutch and four French Ships which he found there, with Plunder, and returned to England. The Dutch W. India Com∣pany in 1628, having taken great part of the Spanish Plate-fleet, and designing to revenge their Disgrace at St. Salvador, they sent a strong Fleet under Hen. Van Loncquy, with which he took Olinda in 1630.
• * Oliphant, an ancient Name in Scotland, of which there is a Lord, whose chief Residence is Duplin Castle in the Country of Strathern. Cambd. Brit.
• * Olite, a City of Spain in the Kingdom of Navarr, Capital of Terra d'Olite. It stands on the River Cecadas 24 miles S. of Pampelune, and as many N. of Tudela, and N. E. of Calahorra. Lon. 16. 00. Lat. 42. 28.
• Oliva (Joan. Paulus de) General of the Jesuits, was born at Genoua, in 1600. He died in 1681. A Collection of his Letters was printed at Venice in 1681. And the rest of his Works have been printed at Lions.
• Olivarez, A Spanish Count in old Castile, near to Valladolid. Henry of Guzman, Count of Olivares was Embassador at Rome under Philip II. King of Spain. The favour of his Son Gaspar of Guzman, Earl and Duke of Olivarez under Philip IVth. is as notorious as his Disgrace afterwards. He was accused of being the cause of the Revolt of Portugal, by his Pride. Margaret of Savoy, formerly Dutchess of Mantua, was possess'd of the Vice∣royalty of that Kingdom, when Michael Vasconcellos, the Duke's Secretary greatly opprest the People, without regarding the Orders of the Princess. After that, the Portugueze had shaken off the Spanish Yoke, Margaret and the Emperor's Embassador com∣plained of it to the King of Spain, who thereupon commanded Olivarez to withdraw from Court, which Disgrace striking to his Heart, was the Cause of his Death soon after. His Succes∣sor in the King's favour was Dom Lewis de Haro Guzman, Oli∣varez his Nephew, but one who did not love him. In 1659, he concluded the Peace between the Crowns of Spain and France.
• Olive, or Olivi, (Peter John) of Seiganno in the Diocess of Beziers, was a Minorite, who lived in the XIIIth. Century. He was accused of holding some singular Opinions about the Bl. Virgin, whereupon his Books were condemned to be burnt. The great Love he had to Poverty, and his strict observance of the Rule of his Order, created him many Enemies amongst his Brethren, who barbarously digging up his Body after his Death, which happened in 1297, condemned him for a Here∣tick, and burnt his Books. Angelus Clareno, Hubertin of Casal, and others, have written his Apology, and maintain him to have been a very holy Person, whose Holiness God confirmed by Miracles after his Death.
• * Olive-Cloister, a Monastery within a Prussian mile from Dantzick, which the Inhabitants of that City burnt; but were obliged to pay 50000 Florins towards the Re-building it, to the Poles. In 1660 a Peace was concluded here between the Emperour, King of Sweden and Poland, by which the Swedes ob∣tained Possession of Livonia, and the Possession beyond the Dwina.
• Olivenza, Lat. Evandria, Oliventia, a City of Portugal, in the Province of Alenceu, upon the River Guadiana, three Leagues from Elvas to the S. W. and twelve from Evora to the E. taken by the Spaniards in 1658, but restored to the Portuguese by the Peace in 1668.
• Olivet, or the Mount of Olives, took its Name from the Olive∣trees which formerly grew there. This was the Place whither our Saviour often retired, and particularly the Eve before his Passion, and from the same ascended to Heaven in the sight of his Apostles: and 'tis supposed that in the same Place David worshipped God, as he fled from his Son Absalom. St. Jerom. de locis Hebr. St. Paul in Epist. II. ad Sev. Sulpit. Sever. in Hist. Beda de locis Sanctis, cap. 7. Optat. lib. 6. in Parm.
• Olivetan (Robert) was the first that published a French Bible, for the use of the Protestants of the Valleys, who desired him to take that Work upon him, it was printed at Neufchastel, in 1553. and is still used by the French Protestants, but with some Correction.

• Oliveto, a Principality of the Kingdom of Naples, towards the midst of the Basilicata.
• * Olmutz, or Olmitz, a neat, strong and populous City of Germany in Bohemia, once the Capital of Moravia, and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Prague, taken by the Swedes in 1642, and kept by them against the Emperor's Forces till the Peace of Munster. It stands seven German miles S. E. from Bryn, 20 North from Vienna, and 26 W. of Cracovia; si∣tuate in a pleasant and fruitfull Soil. The Poles call it Olomo∣mec, the Germans Ulmitz.
• l'Olonois, a famous Boucanier born in Poitou, near to Olone, whence he took his Name. He left France in his Youth, and engaged himself to an Inhabitant of the Isles of America, to whom he was a bound Servant for three years. Being got out of his Servitude, he betook himself to the Boucaniers on the Coast of Domingo. Having continued this Life for some time, he resolved to join himself with some French Adventurers, who betook themselves to the Tortois Isle, near the great Spanish Island, amongst whom he was not long, but he was made Master of a Vessel. And after he had taken many Prizes, was taken by the Spaniards, who killed most of his Men, and wounded him. But he lying down amongst the Dead, by that means saved his Life. And putting on the Cloaths of one of the Spaniards that were killed in the Fight, he came near to the City of Campes∣che, where he met with some Slaves, to whom he promised their Liberty, if they would go along with him; which they accepted; and got one of their Master's Canoes to a place where Olonois expected them, into which he entered, and within a few days came to the Tortois Island. The Governour of the Ha∣vana having heard of his being upon that Coast with two Canoes, in each of which he had 11 men, sent out a light Frigat against them, which Olonois mastered and cut off all the Spaniards Heads with his own Hands, except only the last, whom he sent back to the Governour of the Havana, with word, That if he could, he was ready to give him the same Enter∣tainment. He afterwards took two great Spanish Ships, and having drawn in several Adventurers, he made up a Fleet wherewith he plundered the City of Maracaibo, in the Province of Venezuila, upon the side of the Lake of Marecaye, and af∣terwards the Town of Gibraltar, on the other side of the Lake. After several other Exploits, he went, at last, to cruise before Carthagena; where going by Land to plunder a Country Town, he was taken by the wild Indians, who quartered him, roasted him, and eat him. Oexmelin. Hist. of the West Indies.
• * Olt, Lat. Aluta, a River of Transilvania, call'd by the Germans Alt. It runs Southward through Transilvania, and watering Cronstadt, Mergenburg, and Fogaras, leaves Hermanstadt to the West, and crossing the Mountains of Eysenthorn, and the Western part of Moldavia, falls into the Danube above Nige∣boli
• Olybius, an Illustrious Citizen of Padua, in whose Tomb was found a Lamp which had burnt there 1500 Year, between two Vessels, whereof the one was of Gold, and the other of Silver, fill'd with a very clear Liquor. Licet. de Lucern. An∣tiquis.
• Olympia Fulvia Morata. See Fulvia Morata.
• Olympia a City of Elis in the Peloponnesus, where there was a famous Temple dedicated to Jupiter Olympius, so called from the Name of this City. The Structure of this Temple was wonderful, and had vast Treasures belonging to it, as well by reason of the Oracles which were given there, as for the O∣lympick Games, which were celebrated near it, in honour of the said Heathen God. But the Statue of Jupiter made by Phidi∣as, was that which was accounted the greatest wonder of all, being reckon'd one of the Wonders of the World, which is thus described by Pausanias. This Statue is made sitting on a Throne of Gold and Ivory, with a Crown on his Head, which seems to be made of Olive-Branches; in his Right-hand he holds a Victory of Ivory, which hath a Crown upon its Head-dress of Massy Gold; and in his Left-hand hath a Scepter, made of a mixture of all Metals together, with an Eagle at the top of it. The Buskins and Sandals of Jupiter are all of Gold, and the Garments wrapt about him is of the same matter, and adorn'd with the Figures of Animals, and Flower-de-luces in great number. The Throne it self is em∣belish'd with Ivory, Ebony, Gold, precious Stones, and a mul∣titude of emboss'd Figures; and at the four Feet or Pedestals of the Throne, are four Victories, and two others at the two Feet of the Statue. At the two Feet on the foreside of the Throne, on the one side are the figures of Sphinxes, who are taking away some Theban Youths, and on the other are represented the fi∣gures of the Children of Niobe, whom Apollo and Diana shot to death with their Arrows. Between the Feet of this Throne is represented Theseus, and the rest of the Hero's who accompa∣nied Hercules to the War against the Amazons, besides many Wrestlers. All the place about the Throne is adorned with Pictures, representing Hercules's Labours, with many other of the most famous Historical Subjects. On the upper part of the Throne, Phidias plac'd on one side the Graces, and on the other the Hours, because both are the Daughters of Jupiter, ac∣cording to the Poets. On the Footstool of the Statue are set golden Lions, and a Representation of the Combat of Theseus a∣gainst the Amazons. On the Basis are several golden Figures, viz. Of the Sun mounting into his Chariot, of Jupiter, Juno, the Graces, Mercury, Vesta, and Venus, who has Love by her. Besides these, there are also those of Apollo, Diana, Minerva, Her∣cules, Amphitrite, Neptune, and the Moon, who is represented sit∣ting on a Horse. This is the substance of what Pausanias saith of this famous Statue. But notwithstanding that this Workmanship was the wonder of all the Ancients, yet Strabo finds a great fault in it, for want of Proportion, because it was of such a prodigi∣ous bigness, that if it had stood upright it must have pierc'd the Roof of the Temple. Dion, Suetonius and Josephus inform us, That the Emperor Caligula had a design to take away this Sta∣tue, and have it brought to Rome, and relate the Prodigies which deterr'd him from that Enterprize. Another thing to be noted concerning this Temple, is, That amongst the many Altars it had, there was one, To the Unknown Gods, which is like that Inscription of the Altar of Athens. Chevreau's Histo∣ry of the World.
• Olympiad, the space of four Years, so call'd from the Olym∣pick Games, instituted by Hercules, An. Mund. 2836, which were celebrated every four Years, about the time of the Summer Solstice, upon the Banks of the River Alphaeus, near the City Pisa, and the Temple of Jupiter Olympius, in Elis, a Province of the Peloponnesus. These Games were restor'd by Iphitus, 442 Years after their first Institution by Hercules, and 22 or 23 Years before the Foundation of Rome. The Greek Historians began a new Epocha the first Year of the first Olympiad. We are to ob∣serve, That to speak exactly, every Olympiad Year, belongs to two Julian Years; that is to say, the six first Months from July to January, to the foregoing, and the six last Months from Janua∣ry to July, to the following Year; though most Authors speak of the Olympiads, as if they had begun the first of January, as by Example, 'tis the same thing to say, such a thing was done in the first Year of the sixth Olympiad, as to say, it was done in that Ju∣lian Year, in which the sixth Olympiad began; these were every fifth Year, or as the Interpreter of Lycophon says, every fiftieth Month. The design of the Institution was to accustom Young Men to Running, Leaping, and other Exercises. They held but five Days. The Conqueror was call'd Olympionices, and to be crown'd there, was as glorious as to triumph at Rome: For the Olympionices was attended home in his Coach, the Wall of the City broken down, and he drove in at the Breach. These were call'd Olympia Magna to distinguish 'em from other Plays of this nature that were instituted in Macedonia at A∣thens, &c. Choraebus was the first who was crown'd at these Games for having obtain'd the Victory by running. The number of the Olympick Years to the Birth of Christ are 776, and the Years of Rome before that time but 753, because the first Olympiad of the Cronologers begun 23 Years before the Foundation of Rome.
• Olympias, the Sister of Alexander King of the Epirots, mar∣ried to Philip King of Macedonia, by whom he had Alexander the Great. Her haughty Humour made her to disagree with her Husband, who divorc'd her and married another. It is said also, That he suspected her to be guilty of Adultery. Af∣ter the Death of Philip, she mock'd at the Vanity of her Son, who would make People believe, he was the Son of Jupiter, tel∣ling him in her Letter, That he had best take heed of making her the object of Juno's Jealousie and Rage, forasmuch as she had never in the least deserv'd it. After the Death of Alexan∣der, she caus'd Arideus, Euridice, Nicanor, and a hundred other Illustrious Macedonians, to be put to Death; whereof, when Cassander was inform'd, he came and besieg'd Pindus, where this cruel Princess was, and having taken it, caus'd her to be kill'd in 438 of Rome. Plutarch. in vita Alexand. Quint. Curt. Justin.
• Olympias, a holy Widow and Deaconess of the Church of Constantinople in the time of St. Chrysostom: She was the Daugh∣ter of Count Anicius, and Niece of the Prefect Ablavius, fa∣mous in the time of Constantine the Great. She was married to Nebridius, who died twenty Months after his Marriage, and left her great Riches, which she employ'd for the Service of the Church and Poor. She was banish'd at the same time that St. Chrysostom was, here she died very holily, in 404. The Menology of the Greeks celebrates her Memory the five and twentieth of July. Pallad. Laus. Hist. cap. 42. & de vit. Christ. Sozomen, lib. 8. Baron. in Annal. &c.
• Olympii, a Name given by the Athenians to their twelve chief Gods to whom they had dedicated a very Magnificent Al∣tar, viz. Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Vulcan, Apollo, Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, and Venus. 'Tis said, That A∣lexander the Great, after his Conquest of Persia, desir'd to have his Statue receiv'd among the number of these Deities, and set upon the same Altar, which the Greeks, from a base Spirit of flattery easily granted him Dempster. Aelian.
• Olympiodorus, an Athenian, who liv'd about An. Mund. 3730. He commanded an Army for the Athenians against Demetrius the Son of Antigonus, one of Alexander the Great's Successors, whom he defeated, tho' with a much less Army. He took the Fort Musaeum, which the Macedonians had made themselves Ma∣sters of, and by this means deliver'd his City from their Domi∣nation. He afterwards conquered Cassander, being assisted by the Aetolians, and defeated the Macedonians in a third Battel, with a Company of Eleusinians, for which great Services the Se∣nate honour'd him with a Brass Statue, erected in Memory of him at Delphos after his Death. Pausanias in Atticis.

• Olympiodorus, originally of Thebes in Egypt, was an Hi∣storian and Poet by Profession, and a Heathen by Religion. He liv'd in the Vth. Century, and writ an History in XXII Books, beginning with the Seventh Consulship of the Emperors Hono∣rius and Theodosius the Younger, to whom he Dedicated that Work, and reacheth to the first Year of the Emperor Valenti∣nian; that is to say, from 407 to 425. See the remains of this History in Photius.
• Olympus, a Mountain of Thessaly near to Ossa and Pelion which Castaldus and Niger call Lacha. There was another of the same name in Mysia in Asia near to the City Prusia, which the Turks call Anotolaidag, Emerdag, and Keschisdag. Another in Lycia, with a City of the same name, and one in Cyprus which Stephen of Lusignan calls Troas. * The Greeks, who are forward to magnifie the concerns of their own Country, speak highly of Mount Olympus, insomuch, that Homer would have it to be the Habitation of Jupiter and the Gods, and to be with∣out Clouds. Doctor Brown says, That some parts of the Alps seem'd much higher to him than Olympus did, that he has ob∣serv'd Clouds above it, and in September there appear'd no Snow upon it, which the high peak•• of the Alps, Pyrenaean and Car∣pathian, besides many other Mountains in Europe, are never with∣out. It consists not of one rising peak as it is sometimes de∣scrib'd, but extends to a great length from East to West, in∣somuch, that the Inhabitants at the foot of the North and South sides have a different temper of Air, as if they liv'd in different Climes. This Mountain is often mention'd in the Roman Hi∣story, for Paulus Aemilius winding about it, by the Sea-side, over∣came King Perseus, and so conquer'd Macedonia. When Antiochus besieg'd Larissa, Appius Claudius, by great Fires made on Olympus, occasion'd him to think that the whole Force of the Romans were coming upon him, and so oblig'd him to raise the Siege. But the Exploit of the Consul Martius, upon this Hill, was most remarkable and unparallell'd by any since; who being sent a∣gainst King Philip, the last of the Name, brought his Soldiers over Olympus by passages unknown, and such difficult ways, that his Men were fain to wallow down; his Elephants, by strange contriv'd Engines, somewhat like Draw-bridges, one under another, were let down into the Plain, as Sir Walter Ra∣leigh hath more largely describ'd. In the hot and dry Sum∣mer 1669 the Grand-Signior pass'd above two Months upon Mount Olympus, for the fine prospect of the Plains and the E∣gean Seas, and to enjoy fresh Air; but his Humour prov'd de∣structive to some hundreds of those that attended him, for be∣ing over-heated by ascending, and then pierc'd by the cold Air above, they fell sick and died, and often in such places where there was not Earth enough to cover 'em; many also perish'd by drinking of a Spring of a whitish colour in their heats and thirst, which caus'd a coldness and heaviness at their Stomach for three or four days before they died; many of their Horses and Camels died also. The Sultan himself fell ill, and being recover'd kill'd one of his best Horses, forcing him up a noted peak of the Mountain call'd Pythagon or Kissagon: He was also so daring, that he would have leap'd on Horse-back over a Fissure or Cleft in the Rocks, and was scarce with-held from that bold attempt by the Prayers and Importunity of his chief∣est Followers.