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conquest of the whole earth ; Gades, too, which she founded 
beyond the limits of the world. At the present day, all her 
fame is confined to the production of the murex and the 
purpled Its circumference, including therein Palsetyrus^, is 
nineteen miles, the place itself extending twenty-two stadia. 
The next towns are Sarepta^ and Ornithon'*, and then 
Sidon'\ famous for its manufacture of glass, and the parent 
of Thebes^ in Boeotia. 
(20.) In the rear of this spot begins the chain of Libanus, 
which extends 1500 stadia, as far as Simyra ; this district 
has the name of Ccele Syria. Opposite to this chain, and 
separated from it by an intervening valley, stretches away 
the range of Antilibanus, which was formerly connected 
with Libanus^ by a wall. Beyond it, and lying in the in- 
terior, is the region of Decapolis, and, Avith it, the Tetrarchies 
already mentioned, and the whole expanse of Palsestina. On 
the coast, again, and lying beneath Libanus, is the river 
Magoras^, the colony of Berytus^, which bears the name of 
Pelix Julia, the town of Leontos^^, the river Lycos Palse- 
byblos^^, the river Adonis and the towns of By bios 
^ From which was made the famous Tyrian purple. 
2 Or " ancient Tyre," which was buHt on the mainland, 
3 The Zarephath of 1 Kings xvii. 9, 10, whither Elijah was sent to 
the widow, whose son he afterwards raised from the dead. Its site is 
now known as Sarfand. 
* Probably meaning " City of the Birds," perhaps from the quantities 
of game in its vicinity. Its site now bears the name of Adlan. 
^ Its site is now called Saida. In the time of David and Solomon, it 
was probably subject to the kings of Tyre. 
^ Cadmus, the founder of Thebes, was said to have been the son of its 
king Agenor. 7 Xhe Lebanon of Scripture. This inter- 
vening space, the ancient Ccele-Syria, is now inhabited by the Druses. 
^ Perhaps the modern Nahr-el-Damur. 
^ Now Beyrout. By some it has been identified with the Berotha, or 
Berothai, of the Hebrew Scriptures. Its full name as a Roman colony 
was, " Colonia Julia Augusta FeHx Berytus." It was colonized, by the 
veterans of the Fifth, or Macedonian, and the Eighth, or Augustan, 
Legions. Beyrout, or Berut, is now, in a, commercial point of view, the 
most important place in Syria. 
Nothing is known of this place. The name seems to mean, the 
"Town of the Lion." " Now the Nahr-el-Kelb, or " Dog's River.** 
12 The site of this place seems not to be known. 
13 Now the Nahr-el-Ibrahim. 
I'* The modern town which stands on its site is called Jebeil, It is 
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