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3. And when Caesar had further bestowed upon him another additional country,
he built there also a temple of white marble, hard by the fountains of Jordan: the place is called Panium, where is
a top of a mountain that is raised to an immense height, and at its side, beneath, or at its bottom, a dark cave opens itself;
within which there is a horrible precipice, that descends abruptly to a vast depth; it contains a mighty quantity of water,
which is immovable; and when any body lets down any thing to measure the depth of the earth beneath the water, no length of
cord is sufficient to reach it. Now the fountains of Jordan rise at the roots of this cavity outwardly; and, as some think,
this is the utmost origin of Jordan: but we shall speak of that matter more accurately in our following history.
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