[3688] Called by Pliny, in B. xii. c. 41, Gabba. It was situate at the foot of Mount Carmel between Cæsarea and Ptolemais, sixteen miles from the former. No remains of it are to be seen. It must not be confounded with Gabala, in Galilee, fortified by Herod the Great.
[3689] The town was situate between Cæsarea and Ptolemais. The river has been identified with the modern Nahi-el-Zerka, in which, according to Pococke, crocodiles have been found.
[3690] Called Dor, before the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites. See Joshua xvii. 11, and Judges i. 27. It afterwards belonged to the half-tribe of Manasseh. Its site is now called Tortura.
[3691] Its site is now called Atlik, according to D’Anville. Parisot suggests that it is the modern Keufah; others that it is Hepha, near Mount Carmel.
[3692] Insignificant in height and extent, but celebrated in Scripture history. It still bears the name of Cape Carmel.
[3693] It is not improbable that he means the town of Porphyrium, now Khaifa, at the foot of the mountain.
[3694] Probably the Gitta of Polybius. Of it and Jeba, nothing is known.
[3695] The Nahr-Naman, or Abou, on which Ptolemais was situate.
[3696] Employed in the extensive manufacture of that article at Tyre and Sidon, to the north of this district.
[3697] A corruption of Acco, the native name; from which the English name Acre, and the French St. Jean d’Acre. The earliest mention of it is in the Book of Judges, i. 31. It is supposed that it was Ptolemy I., the son of Lagus, who enlarged it and gave it the name of Ptolemais. Its citadel, however, still retained the name of Ace. Under the Romans, Ptolemais, as mentioned by Pliny, was a colony, and belonged to Galilee. The modern city of Acre occupies its site.