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BOSOR or Bosra, is four days journey southward from Damascus1. There is a very strong Castle belonging to it, a Gate twenty cubits high, and one of the largest Basons or Pools of Water in all the East, as the Persian Geographer assures us. See Bezer, ver. 20. ספרדSepharad.
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Bibl. Orient. p. 211. col. 2. ↩
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