erected into an Archbishopric under the Patriarchate of Jerusalem; and when William 
of Tyre, the well-known Chronicler of the Crusades, was consecrated Archbishop 
(a.d. 1174) and wrote his History here; still, no record of the Cathedral is to be 
found. An unsettled tradition reports, that the hones of the Emperor Frederic the 
First, who was drowned in the Calycadnus, or the Cydnus, on Ins march to Palestine 
(a.d. 1190), were buried in Tyre, his heart having been deposited in the Cathedral of 
Antioch. 1 
The population of Tyre is reckoned at 400 taxable Mahometans, and 300 taxable 
Christians; thus giving a population of nearly 3000 souls. The Christians are chiefly 
Greek Catholics, who have a resident Bishop. There are but few Jewish inhabitants. 
The water of the town is supplied by two fountains rising in the Island, close to the 
sea; they are, however, supposed to have some secret communication with the springs of 
Ras-el-Ain, three copious reservoirs, at an hour’s distance in the plain. 
1 Will. Tyre, xxi. 9, and others, quoted in Biblical Researches, iii. 399. 
RUINS OF AN IONIC TEMPLE. 
Passing northward from Acre, on descending the first headland, the traveller reaches 
the small village of Nachora. The road, in its general massiveness, gives striking 
vestiges of the work of antiquity: even the bridge over the inconsiderable stream 
which crosses it is formed of immense blocks, which scorn decay. 
On ascending a promontory at some distance from the village, the eye is struck 
with a bold ruin, the remnant of an Ionic temple, which must have once formed a 
magnificent object from both the hills and the sea, having a front of at least 200 feet, 
with a depth of 400. One standing shaft alone retains its capital. But fragments 
of Ionic columns, in the best taste, remain, flung about in every direction, and confusedly 
mingled with Doric: earthquakes are the great enemy of architecture in this country. 
The Artist observes, as one of the most singular instances of Asiatic oblivion, or 
Antiquarian neglect, that neither this noble ruin, nor the stately City which obviously 
suiTounded it, has found a name. Fragments of sculpture and building extend widely 
within view of the Temple; and he conjectures, that they may have once been the City 
built by Alexander, whose site had been erroneously conceived to lie a mile farther 
to the north. The country in the rear rises in a succession of hills, which, though 
now desolate, give evidence of former cultivation. Beyond the Temple, the road 
again ascends until it meets the precipices of Cape Blanco. 1 
The mixture of the Doric and Ionic architecture may be accounted for by the 
acknowledged affinity of the two orders; the latter being palpably but the former 
refined into elegance: the triglyph exchanged for the dentele; the strong and single 
architrave for the delicate lines and ornamental sculpture of the triple; the robust 
and plain shaft for the shapely and fluted : and the massy capital for the graceful volute— 
the Doric the emblem of masculine strength ; the Ionic the emblem of feminine beauty. 
Roberts’s Journal. 
