Orontes

Orontes, a Syrian river, now known as Nahr-el-Asi, rises near Baalbec, and enters the Mediterranean after a course first in a northerly and then a westerly direction of 147 miles. The banks are in some places 300 feet high, and are clothed abundantly with figs, vines, sycamores, and myrtles. Antioch is on this river some twenty miles from its mouth.