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The curse pronounced by the prophet Ezekiel, 26th chapter, and Isaiah, 

 23d chapter, upor ;he cities of Tyre and Sidon, could scarcely have been more 

 effectually executed than by their own self-inflicted punishment in so thor- 

 oughly destroying the forests of Lebanon, upon which the welfare and pros- 

 perity of those cities depended, and the removal of which has so completely 

 desolated their tributary country. 



