APAMEA, a City of Phrygia, upon the river Marsyas. Some have been of opinion, that Noah’s Ark rested near Apamea. This City took the firname of Ark; and its medals were struck with the figure of an Ark. In a piece coined in honour of Adrian, there is the image of a Man, who represents the river Marsyas, with these words,1 A Medal of the Apameans, the Ark and River Marsyas. And in the Sybilline verses, the Author whereof is pretty ancient2, we read that Mount Ararat, where the Ark settled, is upon the confines of Phrygia, at the sources of the river Marsyas. But this opinion is not to be defended; Mount Ararat was in Armenia, not in Phrygia.
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