the Sea of Tiberias, where Christ wrought miracles; but its precise location is not known.

DAMASCUS, once a most noble city, and one of the most ancient on the earth. -(Gen. xiv. 15.) It was about 50 miles in circumference, situated in a large plain, and is surrounded by several considerable villages. The plain is covered with gardens of chestnut, olive, and fig trees, apricots and vines. According to the best information, Damascus contains about 150,000 souls, about 10,000 of whom are Christians. It is computed that 50,000 Mahometan pilgrims annually pass through this city, from the north, on their way to Mecca.

DOR. (Judg. i. 27.) This is now a small town on the Mediterranean coast, about nine miles north of Cæsarea. Its present name is Tortura. It is close upon the beach, and contains about 500 inhabitants. It was formerly a royal city, or capital of a district of Canaan, (Josh. xii. 23,) and was assigned to the half tribe of Manasseh.

DEBIR, or Kirjath-Sepher, (Judg. i. 11,) or KirjathSannah, (Josh. xv. 49.) A stronghold of the sons of Anak, which was conquered by Joshua, (Josh. x. 38, 39,) and assigned to the tribe of Judah. It was afterwards recaptured by the Canaanites, and again subdued by the Israelites under Othniel.-(Josh. xv. 15—17.) It afterwards became a city of the Levites.-(Josh. xxi. 15.) There was another town of this name among the possessions of Gad, east of the Jordan, (Josh. xiii. 26,) and a third on the border of Judah and Benjamin.(Comp. Josh. viii. 26, and xv. 7.)

EMIMS. (Deut. ii. 10.) A numerous and warlike people of gigantic size, who dwelt on the eastern borders of Canaan, and who were supplanted by the Moabites.

GEZER. (Josh. xvi. 3.) A town of Ephraim on the border of Benjamin, north-west of Jerusalem. It remained in the possession of the Canaanites, (Josh. x. 33; xvi. 10; Judg. i. 29,) till the king of Egypt subdued it, and gave it to his daughter, the wife of Solomon.

GIRGASITE, (Gen. x. 16,) or Girgashites, (Gen. xv. 21.) A tribe of the Canaanites, who are supposed to have inhabited a section of the country east of the Sea of Galilee, from whom the name of the city of Gergesa was derived.

The city of GILEAD was situated on the river Jabok, in Canaan.(Josh. xii. 2.)

HAZOR. (Josh. xi. 10.) A capital city of the Canaanites, where Jabin dwelt, and which was subdued and burnt by Joshua. (Josh. xi. 1-13.) It was, however, rebuilt and governed by a king of the same name, whose army was routed by Barak. —(Judg. iv. 2 — 16.) It was fortified by Solomon, (1 Kings ix. 15,) and in the general invasion of the country by Tiglath-Pileser, fell into his hands, (2 Kings xv. 29,) and its inhabitants were carried into Assyria.

The land of HAVILAH, (Gen. ii. 11,) where the sacred historian uses the name which afterwards applied to this land, and which was probably derived from Havilah, the son of Cush, (Gen. x. 7,) whose descendants peopled it. It is supposed to be the same with Colchis, between the Black Sea and the Caspian. Another country of this name lay between the Euphrates and Tigris, towards the Persian Gulf, where Chavelæi [or Chavilah,] of later times is found. One of these provinces may have been settled by Havilah, the descendant of Joktan. —(Gen. x. 29.) A third Havilah is supposed to be intended in Gen. xxv. 18, though that passage may also describe the vast region last mentioned, between the Persian Gulf on the east, and Shur by the Red Sea on the west. The phrase "from Havilah unto Shur," in Gen. xxv. 18, and 1 Sam. xv. 7, and many other passages seems to be used to designate the opposite extremes of Arabia; in which sense Havilah may be regarded as the eastern border of the country inhabited by the Ishmaelites and Amalekites.

HIVITES. (Gen. x. 17.) A horde of the Canaanites elsewhere called Avims.-(Deut. ii. 23.) They seem to have been settled in various parts of the land. —(Gen. xxxiv. 2; Josh. xi. 3, 19.)

HORIMS. (Deut. ii. 1, 22.) A general name for dwellers in caves; and perhaps the same with the Horites. HORITES. (Gen. xiv. 6.). An ancient and powerful people, who dwelt in Mt. Seir. - (Gen. xxxvi. 20-30.) HADAD-RIMMON. (Zech. xii. 11.) From comparing this passage with 2 Chron. xxxv. 22—25, we infer that Hadadrimmon was a city or village in the valley of Megiddo.

KISHON. An ancient river, rising at the foot of Mt. Tábor. It is called "the waters of Megiddo," because Megiddo was built upon its margin. It is famous for the battle between Barak and Sisera, and for the destruction of Baal's prophets.—(1 Kings xviii. 40.) It is called "the river before Jokneam.". - (Josh. xix. 11.)

JEBUS. (Judg. xix. 10.) The Jebusite is mentioned among the descendants of Canaan the son of Ham, (Gen. x. 16,) and there was a warlike race called Jebusites, inhabiting the mountainous country around Jerusalem, and keeping possession of it, (Josh. xv. 63,) until it was wrested from them by David, and made the capital of Judea. (1 Chron. xi. 4-8.) The Jebusites were probably permitted to remain on the ground after their conquest. (2 Sam. xxiv. 16, 24.) It is supposed they were dispossessed for a season by Joshua, (Josh. x. 23, 40; xii. 10,) and afterwards regained some districts, while the Israelites possessed others.-(Comp. Josh. xv. 63; 1 Sam. xvii. 54; 2 Sam. v. 6.)

KENITES. (Gen. xv. 19.) One of the tribes or nations who had possession of Canaan in the time of Abraham. It appears that they were driven from Canaan; and are afterwards spoken of as dwelling in the highlands near the Ammonites and Moabites. (Num. xxiv. 21, 22.) In the time of Saul, they were found dwelling among or near the Amalekites. Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, was of this nation.

KADMONITES, a tribe of Canaanites east of Jordan, near Mt. Hermon. (Gen. xv. 19.) Cadmus, the famous inventor of the Greek Alphabet, is thought to have emigrated from this country.

LEBANON, a famous range of mountains in the north of Canaan. At the top grew cedars, and at the base excellent vines. There are two ridges; the eastern, called by the Greeks, Anti-Libanus; and the western, or Proper Libanus, which runs nearly parallel to the coast of the Great Sea. From hence, Solomon's workmen "brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. (1 Kings v. 1418.) Mines of iron and copper were worked here.(Deut. viii. 9.) The highest summits, which are probably about 12,000 feet above the level of the ocean, are

always covered with snow, from which descend in summer, sweet and refreshing rivulets on every side. The principal range extends, somewhat in the form of a crescent, from Cilicia to Esdraelon, a distance of 50 leagues. A spur of this mountain next the Holy Land is called Hermon. Another spur to the eastward is Mt. Gilead, where Laban overtook Jacob. (Gen. xxxi. 25.)

MINNI. (Jer. li. 27.) A province of Armenia, or, more probably, one of the several clans or tribes who were settled on Mt. Taurus, east and south of the Black Sea. The Ashkenites were another of these tribes.

MAKKEDAH. (Josh. x. 10.) One of the principal cit ies of the Canaanites, which was allotted to Judah, and lay south-west of Jerusalem. There was a remarkable cave here, in which five petty kings concealed themselves, but were discovered by Joshua, and put to an ignominious death.

MIZREPHOTH-MAIM. (Josh. xi. 8.) A place near Sidon, and supposed to be the same with Sarepta.

PERIZZITES, one of the devoted nations of Canaan. They were never fully extirpated. Solomon exacted tribute of them. (2 Chron. viii. 7.) So late as the days of Ezra we find them intermarried with the Jews.-(Ez. ix. 1.)

SAMARIA.

1. (1 Kings xiii. 32.) The central province or section of the land of Canaan, having Galilee on the north and Judea on the south was called, in the time of Christ, Samaria. It included the possessions of Ephraim and Manasseh, and comprehends the modern districts of Areta and Nablouse; in the former of which are the sites of Cæsarea and Carmel, and in the latter Shechem and the city of Samaria,

2. The city of Samaria, (1 Kings xvi. 24,) from which the above province had its name, was situated about 40 miles north of Jerusalem, and a short distance north-west of Nablouse, [Shechem.] It was founded by Omri, king of Israel, as the capital of Israel, or the ten tribes. — (1 Kings xvi. 29; 2 Kings iii. 1.) The territory was purchased of Shemer, [hence Samaria,] and fortified. — (2 Kings x. 2.) It withstood two unsuccessful sieges by Benhadad, king of Syria, and his powerful allies, (1 Kings 20,) and was finally subdued by Shalmanezer, in

the reign of Hoshea, but not till after a siege of three years.(2 Kings xvii. 1-6.) Previous to its fall, it was given up to every species of sensuality, oppression and idolatry. It recovered its prosperity, however, and reached the height of its glory in the time of Herod the Great, who enlarged and adorned it. The ruins attest its former magnificence, though it is now but an insignificant village. A modern traveller says, "The situa tion is extremely beautiful, and strong by nature -more so than Jerusalem. It stands on a fine large insulated hill, compassed all round by a broad deep valley; and when fortified, must have been, according to the ancient mode of fighting, almost impregnable."

ASHIMA, the god of the Hamathites, who settled in Samaria.

SHECHEM, (Gen. xxxiii. 18,) or Sychem, (Acts vii. 16,) or Sychar, (John iv. 5,) was one of the most ancient cities of Canaan.

SHALEM. Jacob took his women and children, and flocks and herds, and came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, where he bought a parcel of ground of the children of Hamor, for a hundred pieces of money, and erected there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel, that is "God, the God of Israel.". (Gen. xxxiii.) But although Jacob seems to have intended this as his place of permanent residence, yet events occurred which rendered it expedient for him to remove to another part of the country.(Gen. xxxiv.). Jacob was greatly grieved at the cruel and treacherous conduct of his sons in the affair of Dinah, and foresaw that it would render him and his family odious to all the people in the neighborhood, so as to expose him to be slain with all his house.

SALEM, (Gen. xv. 18,) has been generally supposed to be the place which was afterwards called Jerusalem. (Comp. Ps. lxxvi. 2.) But some think that the place of which Melchizedec was king was the Shalem of Gen. xxxiii. 18, or the Salim of the New Testament, [see SALIM,] and that the Salem of the Psalmist is a contraction of Jerusalem.

SALIM, (John iii.23,) or Shalem, (Gen. xxxiii. 18,) or Shalim, (1 Sam. ix. 4,) was south of Bethshean, and west