IX. 
442 THE HOLY LAND. 
GHAP. rocks of the place '. In antient times it was the 
only place resorted to as a sea-port, in all 
Judcea. Hither Solomon ordered the materials 
of the Temple to be brought from Mount 
Lihanus, previous to their conveyance by land 
to Jerusalem, A tradition is preserved, that 
here Noah lived and built his ark. Pliny 
describes it as older than the Deluge ^ In his 
time they pretended to exhibit the marks of the 
chains with which Andromeda was fastened to a 
rock : the skeleton of the sea-monster, to whom 
she had been exposed, was brought to Rome 
by Sccmrus, and carefully preserved^; — proving 
(1) " Minds tutus est, et non nisi parva navigia admittit. Nee 
ctiam Celebris est, i"jnouiaiii propter port^is incomnioditatem baud 
multsB merces illuc adveliuutiir." Quaresm. Eluc. T. S. torn. II. p. 5. 
y4ntv. 1639. 
(2) " Joppe Phoe!)icum, antiquior terraruin inundatione." Hist. 
Nat. lib. V. c. 13. torn. I. p. 2S2. L.Bat. 1635. 
(3) Julius Solinus in Polyhistor. cap. 37- Norimb. 1777. The ribs 
were forty feet in length ; and from the account given of the animal, 
it was probably a whale. Vid. Abulensis in cap. 14. Exod. quast.W. 
Quaresm. Eluc. T. S. torn. II. p. 5. jfiitv. 1639. Strah. Geog. lib. i. 
et xy\. Pomponius Mela, lib. i. cap. II, ifc. Thus we have evidence 
of whales in this sea, without having recourse to the testimony of 
Sacred Scripture. Mr. Bryant, however, in his " Observations upon 
some passages in Scripture, which the enemies of Religion have thought 
most obnoxious, 8fc." 4to. pp.243, 244, 245, is of the opposite opinion. 
But, if he be right with respect to the single whafe in the Mediter- 
ranean, how came that fish, from earliest times, to have been an 
object of worship at Joppa, unless, as Pliny relates, Joppa had been 
founded before the Deluge ? See p. 24. 
