Five parasangs hence to Jaffa, the Japho of Scripture, on the coast; one Jew only, a dyer by profession, lives here.
It is five parasangs hence to Beit Jaberim, the ancient Mareshah[186], where there are but three Jewish inhabitants.
Five parasangs further is the valley of Ajalon[175], called by the Christians Val de Luna.
From hence it is five parasangs to Tiberias, a city situated on the Jordan, which here bears the name of the Sea of Chinnereth[194], or Lake of Tiberias.
From there it is five parasangs to Palmid, which is Ashdod of the Philistines, now in ruins; no Jews dwell there.
Thence it is five parasangsto Y[=a]fa or Jaffa, which is on the seaboard, and one Jewish dyer lives here.
From Hebron it is five parasangs to Beit Jibrin, which is Mareshah, where there are but three Jews[87].
From here it is five parasangs to Ibelin or Jabneh, the seat of the Academy, but there are no Jews there at this day.
Hence he proceeded, one day's march, five parasangs, to the Gates of Cilicia and Syria.
He then went forward, one day's march, five parasangs, to the river Pyramus, the breadth of which is a stadium.
From Issi, he marched a single stage--five parasangs--to the gates of Cilicia and Syria.
But Koch remarks that the distance is not half so great as that from the sea to Thapsakus; which latter Xenophon gives at sixty-five parasangs.
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