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Now Jotapata is almost all of it built on a precipice, having on
all the other sides of it every way valleys immensely deep and steep, insomuch
that those who would look down would have their sight fail them before
it reaches to the bottom. It is only to be come at on the north side, where
the utmost part of the city is built on the mountain, as it ends obliquely
at a plain. This mountain Josephus had encompassed with a wall when he
fortified the city, that its top might not be capable of being seized upon
by the enemies. The city is covered all round with other mountains, and
can no way be seen till a man comes just upon it. And this was the strong
situation of Jotapata.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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