MYRA, a City of Lycia, where St. Paul embarked on Board a Vessel of Alexandria, in Order to go to Rome. The Latin Text of the Acts has Lystram instead of Myram, as it is in the Greek. But this must be a Fault; for Lystra is in Lycaonia, and not in Lycia. Besides Lystra was no Sea-port Town.
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