Note 296 — NO. XL.—TYRE.

The sacred writings often speak of Tyre as an island. “Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou, whom the merchants of Zidon that pass over the sea have replenished. Pass over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle. Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days?”—Chap, xxiii. verses 2, 6, 7. In Ezekiel, ch. xxviii. ver. 2, “Is it in the midst of the seas?”