. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... sher of these great works are unknown. Thereis an Arab legend that Alexander the Great constructed a sub-terranean canal through which he brought the Avater fromBagdad! but a more pioi;s tradition ascribes them to Solo-mon. Quoting Menander the Ephesian, Josejjhus informs usthat they existed in the days of Shalmanezer, who, in his siegeof Tyre, placed guards at the rivers and aqueducts
. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... sher of these great works are unknown. Thereis an Arab legend that Alexander the Great constructed a sub-terranean canal through which he brought the Avater fromBagdad! but a more pioi;s tradition ascribes them to Solo-mon. Quoting Menander the Ephesian, Josejjhus informs usthat they existed in the days of Shalmanezer, who, in his siegeof Tyre, placed guards at the rivers and aqueducts to hinderthe Tyrians from drawing water.^ Around these fountains, and stretching northward over thisfertile plain, stood the old city of Tyre. Though neither tem-ple nor column remains to mark the site, yet beneath the drift-ed sands of many centuries lie entombed those magnificentruins which have escaped the hand of the spoiler, and which,of late, have been uncovered in part near the hill called TellHabeish. During the reign of Hiram, Palai-Tyrus consistedof two parts, the larger and grander standing near the fount-ains on the main land, and the smaller on an island three miles Anti b. ix., c. Ilk i III ili FROM DAN TO BEERSIIEBA, 449 to the north and not far from the It was by retiringto this island that the inhabitants were enabled to maintainthe defense of their insular city against the attack by Shal-manezer during a period of five years.^ Though subsequent-ly besieged by Nebuchadnezzar for 13 years, yet it was re-served for the son of Philip to be the scourge of Providence,the destroyer of the city, and the accomplisher of continental city foiling an easy prey to the victoriousarms of Alexander the Great, he laid siege to the insular townfor seven months. To capture this strong-hold, he removed alarge portion of the materials of the former place, and withthem built a causeway connecting the island with the conti-nent. Advancing on this new
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