AMANA, a Mountain beyond Jordan, in the Tribe of Manasseh1. It is three leagues from the Lake Moron; and at the bottom is three leagues in circumference, where there is a fine vineyard to be seen; but the top is always covered with snow, for which reason the Arabians have given it the name of Gebel Chaïque; that is to say, the Old Man’s Mountain, because the top of it is all white. Some think this to be Mount Amana, which the Spouse speaks of in the Canticles. I do not observe that either Josephus, St. Jerom, or Eusebius had any knowledge of this Mountain: at least they say nothing of it under the name of Amana.
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Eugene Roger, Terre Sainte, l. 1. c. 20. ↩