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Adamnan's De Locis Sanctis (Author: Adamnan of Iona)

Chapter/toc 19

CONCERNING THE SOURCE OF THE JORDAN

Our friend Arculf also reached the place in the province of Phoenicia where the Jordan seems to emerge from two neighbouring springs at the foot of Libanus. One is called Ior, and the other Dan. Flowing
30] together they are given the compound name, Jordan. But it should be noted that the rising of the Jordan is not in Panium but in the land of Trachonitis, at a distance of 120 stades from Caesarea Philippi, which is now called Panias, a name derived from mount Panium. The name of the spring in Trachonitis is Fiala: it is always full of water. The Jordan
35] derives from it by means of subterranean wanderings, and breaks forth in Panium in divided jets of water, which, as has been said already,

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are wont to be called lor and Dan. It is there also that they emerge, and join together to form one river, which from this point onwards follows its course for 120 stades without any interfusion as far as the city named Iulias. Afterwards it streams through the middle of the lake called
5] Genezar. From these regions it meanders through many desert places, and is gathered into the Asfalt lake and there absorbed. Thus having emerged victorious from two lakes it is caught fast in the third.