BOSTRE´NUS
BOSTRE´NUS (
Βοστρηνός:
Nahr el-Auly), the “graceful” river upon whose waters Sidon was situated. (Dionys. Per. 913.)
The stream rises in Mount Lebanon, NE. of
Deir-el-Kanr and
Bteddîn, from fountains an hour and a half beyond the village of
El-Bârûk; it is at first a wild torrent, and its course nearly south-west. (Burkhardt,
Syria, p. 206; Robinson,
Travels, vol. iii. p. 429; Chesney,
Exped. Euphrat. vol. i. p.467.)
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E.B.J]
