Aialon

P.,L. 12. 266. A broad valley of the Shephelah, Palestine, about fourteen miles west from Jerusalem. Ailsbury. See Joshua 10. Hist. Brit. (5) 5. 217. A town in the Vale of Ailsbury, Bucking hams hire. Ailsford. Hist. Brit. (3) 5. 116. A town in Kent, on the Medway. Akalon. Hist. Brit. (1) 5. 8. An unidentified river of Greece, mentioned by Geofifrey of Mon mouth 1.5. Ak-lea (Oak-lea). Hist. Brit. (5) 5. 193. Ockley in Surrey, on the River Mole. (Camden 1. 168.) Aladule, Realm of. P. L. 10. 435. (See also Bactrian.) The mountainous country of Armenia. it: Purchas remarks of ” Betweene Orpha and Caramit was the Paradise of Aladeules, where he had a fortre e destroyed by Sehm. This his Paradise was hke to that which you shall find in our Persian Historie. Men by a potion brought into a sleep were brought into this supposed Paradise, where at their waking they were presented with all sensuall pleasures of musike, damosels, dainties, etc., which, having had some taste of another sleepie drinke, after came againe to themselves. And then did Aladeules tell them that he could bring them when he pleased to Paradise, the place where they had beene, and if they would commit such murders or haughty attempts, it should be theirs. A dangerous device. (Pilgrimage, p. 75.) Zelim the Turke destroyed the place.” Heylyn mentions the stout resistance of King Aladeules against (Cosmography 3. 14:1.) the Turks. Damon. 175. The united mouth of the Stour and the Avon, flowing into (Camden 1. 115.) the Solent, Hampshire. 28