ASPHAR. This probably is the same as the lacus Asphaltites, whereof we have been speaking. In the first Book of Maccabees ix. 33. it is said that Jonathan and Simon his Brother retired into the Desart of Thecoe, near the lake Asphar. Now we know of no other lake in the neighbourhood of Thecoe, besides that which is called Asphaltites.
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