. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. [Aradus.] The Arvadites are said by Josephus to have occupied and given their name to the smallisland of Aradus, called Arvad and Arphad in the Scriptures,* and the inhabitants of which areby Ezekiel mentioned along with the Sidonians, as taking an active part in the maritimecommerce of Tyre. This island, which is about one league from the shore, and not above amile in circumference, ultimately became the port and chief town of this enterprising andprosperous section of the Phoenician people; and t
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. [Aradus.] The Arvadites are said by Josephus to have occupied and given their name to the smallisland of Aradus, called Arvad and Arphad in the Scriptures,* and the inhabitants of which areby Ezekiel mentioned along with the Sidonians, as taking an active part in the maritimecommerce of Tyre. This island, which is about one league from the shore, and not above amile in circumference, ultimately became the port and chief town of this enterprising andprosperous section of the Phoenician people; and there was a time when even Romansregarded with admiration its lofty houses, built with more stories than those of Rome, and itscisterns hewn in the rock. All this, except the cisterns and some fragments of wall, haspassed away ; but Arvad is still the seat of a town, and, being a mart of transit, its inhabitantsare still all engaged in commerce. Though the island was the favourite seat of the people, astheir wealth and peace were there safe from the wars and troubles of the continent, and the
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