. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. sin, formed by a dam or wall thrown across a valley, for collecting a [ 45] ST. PAULS FIRST CIBCTJIT. [Chap. V111. head of water. Then follows a square tunnel, the principal one, 290 feet long, 22 feetwide, and 24 feet high (fig. 59); then a hollow way, 20-4 feet long, and 22 feet wide, witha narrow staircase on the south side, which terminates at 14 feet from the bottom ;then a second tunnel, 102 feet long; then another hollow way, 1065 feet long. Herethe hollow way sweeps round to the south for 910 feet, when it terminates abruptly30 feet above the le
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. sin, formed by a dam or wall thrown across a valley, for collecting a [ 45] ST. PAULS FIRST CIBCTJIT. [Chap. V111. head of water. Then follows a square tunnel, the principal one, 290 feet long, 22 feetwide, and 24 feet high (fig. 59); then a hollow way, 20-4 feet long, and 22 feet wide, witha narrow staircase on the south side, which terminates at 14 feet from the bottom ;then a second tunnel, 102 feet long; then another hollow way, 1065 feet long. Herethe hollow way sweeps round to the south for 910 feet, when it terminates abruptly30 feet above the level of the sea, and is at the end 30 feet high, and 17 feet extraordinary excavation, when the city was flourishing, served to collect and pourdown the mountain-torrents into the inner port, in order to scour the port itself, andthe lock by which it communicated with the sea. The general features of the port maystill be traced (fig. 00). The outer basin was formed by two moles projecting westward TheANCIENT PORTS Fig 60—This St etch IS gtmmdtd partly on rococke avd partly on the outline in Allens Dead Sea. into the sea, and about 240 paces apart, but so that the southern arm overlapped thenorthern, and the narrow entrance for vessels lay between them. It was from one ofthese piers that Paul must have embarked for Cyprus. The area of the outer basinwas about four acres. From the oiiter basin a lock, 200 yards long by 50 yards wide,conducted into the inner basin, which was retort-shaped, and covered an area of about The accoimt of Polybius is as follows:—opos iiTTOKfirai -rrafuxeyeBts, o Ka\ov<n Kopv( . iv Tols TTOOf ^(tnjfilSpiai avrnv KAt/xaot rijvSfXfVKeini (rvfiliauei KUcrOai, Sifffii-y^eVrji/ (papayyiKolXr) Koi 6u<r0aTo), KaBrjKovirav fiev Kai wfpiKXui-fftivT}V o)s cVl 6aKdtTaT)v, Kara &f to TrXfio-rn fiepr)Kprifimls Km ircTpais anoppio^i jrfpifxo/ieVi/i iTtohi TTjv ini 6aKd(Tcrriv airrjs vevovaav TrXf upai/ eV Tois iTTiTTiOOlS Td T €f
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