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And when Caesar had further bestowed upon him another additional
country, he built there also a temple of white marble, hard by the fountains
of Jordan: the place is called Panium, where is a top of a mountain that
is raised to an immense height, and at its side, beneath, or at its bottom,
a dark cave opens itself; within which there is a horrible precipice, that
descends abruptly to a vast depth; it contains a mighty quantity of water,
which is immovable; and when any body lets down any thing to measure the
depth of the earth beneath the water, no length of cord is sufficient to
reach it. Now the fountains of Jordan rise at the roots of this cavity
outwardly; and, as some think, this is the utmost origin of Jordan: but
we shall speak of that matter more accurately in our following history.
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