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Perecco

PERECCO, a City of Galilee. Joseph. de Bello, l. ii. c. 25. Mr. Reland thinks1, that it ought to be read Caphar-ecco, the Country of Ecco or Acco. The City of Ptolemais was called Acco, so that Caphar-ecco could not be far from thence.

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  1. Reland. Palæstin. l. iii. p. 925. ↩

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