. A description of the East, and some other countries . ^ PJLAW of the Cinr and A^QUEDTJCTS of TYKE. ON PALESTINE, ftroyed by Nebuchodonofor, king of Babylon, as it is computed, nearfeventeen hundred years after its foundation °. Tyre was then on thecontinent, though without doubt the ifland was inhabited, becaufe wefind mention made of it in fcripture and elfewhere, even in the timeof Solomon but the prophecy that Tyre fhould be built no moremuft be underftood of the antient city on the continent. The city onthe ifland feems antiently to have been confidered as the new city:Here the governmen
. A description of the East, and some other countries . ^ PJLAW of the Cinr and A^QUEDTJCTS of TYKE. ON PALESTINE, ftroyed by Nebuchodonofor, king of Babylon, as it is computed, nearfeventeen hundred years after its foundation °. Tyre was then on thecontinent, though without doubt the ifland was inhabited, becaufe wefind mention made of it in fcripture and elfewhere, even in the timeof Solomon but the prophecy that Tyre fhould be built no moremuft be underftood of the antient city on the continent. The city onthe ifland feems antiently to have been confidered as the new city:Here the government feems tohaverefided, and it is probable went to theifland on the invafion of Salmanafar. The city on the continent pro-bably then began to be diftinguifhed from it by the name of old Tyrcjor Paljetyrus ; for it is faid, that old Tyre and fome other cities re-volted from the government of the Tyrians to the kings of AflyriaThe city on the ifland was rebuilt feventy years after it was deftroyed,and, about two hundred years after that, it was taken by Alexander theGreat, and joined to the contin
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