The Holy Land and the Bible; . e and splendid, but these must have been comparatively few innumber, for there was no room at Tyre or Sidon even for the shippingof towns like Dundee or Aberdeen, while a single dock on the Thamesw^ould hold a greater number of vessels, of immensely greater tonnage,than could have found moorage in Tyre and Sidon together. Whatjustly seemed wonderful to early antiquity would in our day be reck-oned almost insignificant: a fact which must not be forgotten in read-ing the description of Tyre by the Prophet Ezekiel. The site of Tyre may be compared to a short-stemmed
The Holy Land and the Bible; . e and splendid, but these must have been comparatively few innumber, for there was no room at Tyre or Sidon even for the shippingof towns like Dundee or Aberdeen, while a single dock on the Thamesw^ould hold a greater number of vessels, of immensely greater tonnage,than could have found moorage in Tyre and Sidon together. Whatjustly seemed wonderful to early antiquity would in our day be reck-oned almost insignificant: a fact which must not be forgotten in read-ing the description of Tyre by the Prophet Ezekiel. The site of Tyre may be compared to a short-stemmed key with thewards turned to the north; the barrel broadening out cone-like towardsthe straioht general line of the coast. Remains of the wall built alongthe edges of the key-head still remain, showing that it once ran roundthe whole extent, looking doAvn on the sea-edge, over the waves whichbeat ceaselessly, twenty to thirty feet below, on the countless rocksthat frinue the shore. Between this old fortification and the modern. •^•J SAREPTA AND TYRE, 653 town lies an open space on the south side, used as a quarry, but it isalso, in part, ploughed and sown; in part used as a cemetery. At thesouth-east corner of the wall, close to the point from which an ancientmole ran out at an acute angle from the shore, stand the ruins of aCrusadino- castle, now in a garden. Not far from it are the remains ofthe Christian Cathedral, in which the mailed warriors of Europe wor-shipped our Lord, apparently on the site of the once famous Temple otMelcarth, the patron god of Tyre. Of the ancient industries of Tyre—the glass factories and dye works,once so noted—the onl}^ traces remaining are fragments of glass, whichhave become consolidated into a hard mass with the sand of the rockyslopes, and thick layers of crushed shells of the murex, which, havingyielded the famous purple, were cast out near the town. The ruins ofthe Cathedral are, in fact, the most striking feature of the place; for
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