Tyre: Its Rise, Glory, and Desolation, With Notices of the Phoenicians Generally (Classic Reprint)

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Phœnicia, in its proper and limited sense, embraces that narrow tract of territory, about twelve mile wide, valley lies at the foot of Mount Lebanon, and extends about one hundred miles from north to south. It is a beautiful and charming country, producing some of the richest fruits and loveliest flowers that grow upon the face of the earth. The difference in the elevation, according as we ascend the mountain, occasions a remarkable diversity in the climate and the natural productions of the soil. The snows of winter rest upon the head of Lebanon, the gay mantle of spring is cast around its shoulders, autumn with its pleasant fruits lies embosomed in its lap, and summer in all its luxuriance extends itself between its base and the blue waves of the Mediterranean Sea.

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