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Identifier: gri_33125009339611 (find matches)
Title: A description of the East, and some other countries
Year: 1743 (1740s)
Authors: Pococke, Richard, 1704-1765 Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810
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Publisher: London : Printed for the author, by W. Bowyer : And sold by J. and P. Knapton, W. Innys, W. Meadows, G. Hawkins, S. Birt, T. Longman, C. Hitch, R. Dodsley, J. Nourse, and J. Rivington
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d with pines i it was between alfo on the fea, and I think muft have been Parium and Priapus, near a place called Linus on about the angle which the cape makes with the the fca, which wasfamous forafortof cocklescall- land to the north eaft; it has its name from that cd Linufian cockles. Between Parium and Priapus infamous worfhip, which was in vogue in ail alfo was a city and country called Adraftea, from tliefe parts, as far as L,ampfacus. The deity, king Adraftus, who firft built a temple to Ne- the fon of I3acchus and Nympha, according to mefis there ; the ftones of which, when it was de- their fables, being born in Lampfacus. This ftroyed, were carried to Parium, and there was city had a port, and fome fay that it was built only an altar made, in the place of it, to the ho- by the Milefians at the fuTie rime as Abydus, nour of the deity. Here alio was an oracle of othei-s that it was founded by the people of Cy- Apollo, Actteus, .ind Diana; but where any of zicus. Turks ; Aphfia.
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