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NOW Phoenicia and Syria encompass about the Galilees, which are two,
and called the Upper Galilee and the Lower. They are bounded toward the
sun-setting, with the borders of the territory belonging to Ptolemais,
and by Carmel; which mountain had formerly belonged to the Galileans, but
now belonged to the Tyrians; to which mountain adjoins Gaba, which is called
the City of Horsemen, because those horsemen that were dismissed
by Herod the king dwelt therein; they are bounded on the south with Samaria
and Scythopolis, as far as the river Jordan; on the east with Hippeae and
Gadaris, and also with Ganlonitis, and the borders of the kingdom of Agrippa;
its northern parts are hounded by Tyre, and the country of the Tyrians.
As for that Galilee which is called the Lower, it, extends in length from
Tiberias to Zabulon, and of the maritime places Ptolemais is its neighbor;
its breadth is from the village called Xaloth, which lies in the great
plain, as far as Bersabe, from which beginning also is taken the breadth
of the Upper Galilee, as far as the village Baca, which divides the land
of the Tyrians from it; its length is also from Meloth to Thella, a village
near to Jordan.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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