far as Adjeroute (the Heroopolis, as it is supposed to 

 be) is now dry at half ebb, though sometimes the sea 

 floweth here near the heigth of a fathom."* 



To these winds, he further observes may be attri- 

 buted the many billows and mountains of sand which 

 are scattered all over those deserts. 



In a voyage of discoveries up the Red sea it is ob- 

 served, "It is difficult to account for a narrow pas- 

 sage between two lines of coral rock having continued 

 for so long a period free for vessels, without having 

 been filled up, either by a sea constantly breaking on 

 its mouth, after having passed over sand banks, or by 

 clouds of sand, which at one season of the year are 

 borne towards it from the desert."^ 



Also, " It blew a gale from the east of north so 

 that the mountains were, as usual on such occasions, 

 concealed from our view by clouds of sand."$ 



It is to this cause that many places on the coast of 

 Syria, and on the Mediterranean sea have been buried 

 up, and every trace of them lost. Yet there are no 

 rivers by which alluvion is deposited, to produce this 

 change. 



Mr. Bruce observes that " All vestiges of old 

 Tyre are effaced ;> the ports of Sidon, Berout, (Be- 

 rytus) Tripoli, and Latika, (Laodicea ad Mare) are 

 filled up by the accretion of sand; and not many 



* Shaw's Travels, page 378, 



t Valentia's Travels, vol. II. p. 286. J Do. vol. II. p. 315. 



See Shaw's Travels, page 331, on the ancient port of Tyre. 



