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Title: 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
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Redding, M. W. (Moses Wolcott) Guide to Mount Moriah, Author of
Subjects: Bible Middle East -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Temple Publishing Union
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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when passing Tyre on board a steamerin 1842, thus alludes to it, Tyre soon appeared,—a low rocky point projecting into the sea, and for thecry from her thousand ships, and crowded port, thereis nothing now but silence and a few fishing boats ;and we should have sailed past the spot without no-ticing it had we not known that a great commercialcity once existed there—the London of the old world. The present town stands at the junction of theisland, and the isthmus formed by Alexanders cause-way, and the eastern wall includes a portion of theisthmus. On the north and west, towards the sea,the walls are so far broken away, as to be scarcelydiscernible. The inner port or basin on the northwas formerly enclosed by a wail running from thenorth end of the island in a curve towards the main-land. Fragments of this wall still remain, sufiiciehtto mark its course. The western shore is a ledge ofrugged picturesque rocks from 15 to 20 feet high,upon which the waves of the Mediterranean dash in
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