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BOTRYS

Volume 3 · 52 words · 1797 Edition

Botrus, or Bofra, (anc. geog.) a town of Phoenicia, on the Mediterranean, built by Saturn, (a proof at least of antiquity); twelve miles to the north of Byblus, and twenty to the south of Tripolis. Now almost in ruins, and called Boteron, or Boturn, (Ptolemaeus). E. Long. 37° 30'. Lat. 34° 6'.