. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . an purple was obtained ? That variety of the Murex from which this dye was pro-cured is found all along this coast, but it abounds mostaround the Bay of Acre. So, also, the Helix Janthina, fromwhich a blue, with a delicate purple or lilac tinge may beextracted, is equally abundant. After a storm in winteryou may gather thousands of them from the sandy beachsouth of Sidon. They are so extremely fragile that thewaves soon grind them to dust. A kind of Buccinum isfound
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . an purple was obtained ? That variety of the Murex from which this dye was pro-cured is found all along this coast, but it abounds mostaround the Bay of Acre. So, also, the Helix Janthina, fromwhich a blue, with a delicate purple or lilac tinge may beextracted, is equally abundant. After a storm in winteryou may gather thousands of them from the sandy beachsouth of Sidon. They are so extremely fragile that thewaves soon grind them to dust. A kind of Buccinum isfound here at Tyre, which has a dark crimson coloring mat-ter about it, with a bluish, li\dd tinge. According to an-cient authors, this was used to vary the shades of the pur-ple. Pliny says the Tyrians ground the shell in mills toget at the dye. This could not have been the only process,because the remnants of these shells found in pits along thesoutheastern shore of our island were certainly broken ormashed, and not ground, and the same is true with theshells on the south of the wall at Sidon. PURPURA—FOUNDATION OF TVRE. 209. BBOKEN PCBPOBA. This Tyrian purple was celebratod in Greece, even in tberemote age of Homer, wlio sings of Belts,That, rich with Tyrian dye, refulgent glowed. The references to these colors of red, purple, and scarlet inthe Bible are more ancient still; indeed, from Genesis toRevelations they are so numerous, and so mingled andblended together, that it is almost impossible to i}articular-ize them; nor is it necessary; the merest child can turn toa score of them. And these colors are equally prevalent andpopular at the present day among all classes of Orientals. These and other matters which connect the history ofTyre with that of the jxojile of God are invested with pe-culiar interest, and I have long desired to become intimate-ly and accurately acquainted with them. I encounter a dif-ficulty at the very beginning of her story. Isaiah calls T^-rethe daughte
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