Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . gular Mosque, andFanatical Inhabitants—The ruins of Beeroth—Kirjath-Jearim—Samaria, Church of St. John—King Solomons Store Cities, Baalbek—Tadmor,and Hamath. TYRE. This ancient sea port is situated 8Y miles N. E. ofJoppa, and 114 N. of Jerusalem. Accordinp^ to Josephus, Tyre was founded aLont210 years before the building of Solomons
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . gular Mosque, andFanatical Inhabitants—The ruins of Beeroth—Kirjath-Jearim—Samaria, Church of St. John—King Solomons Store Cities, Baalbek—Tadmor,and Hamath. TYRE. This ancient sea port is situated 8Y miles N. E. ofJoppa, and 114 N. of Jerusalem. Accordinp^ to Josephus, Tyre was founded aLont210 years before the building of Solomons was a strong city, and a stronghold in the days ofDavid; and it is called by Isaiah, a city whose anti-quity is of ancient days. The original Tyre stood on the mainland oppositethe present town; and at an early period bore thename of Palsetyrus, or Old Tyre. The present townstands on a rocky peninsula, which was an island un-til 350 B. C, when Alexander the Great built hisfamous military causeway out to it from the mainland. Afterwards the accumulation of sand around,and over this causeway rendered it terra firma, thusforming the peninsula. At the period when Phoenician civilization beganto bear sway over all the western world, Tyre was. ISO \35
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