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EXTRAORDINARY CHESTNUT-TREE.
moderns have endeavoured to discover the spring which
supplied them, they could never succeed. The ruins of
ancient Tyre consist of the remains of the walls scattered
in different parts, and mostly buried in the sand; they were
composed of brick and stone, and now appear about ten
feet thick. An old arch which was the gate of the harbour
is still to be seen, but though the harbour has been nearly
filled up with rubbish, small boats can still enter it. Those
who read the prophecies of Isaiah and Ezekiel may form
some ideas of the astonishing wealth and magnificence of
the once-famous cities of Tyre and Sidon, which, in the
end, as many others have been, were ruined only by their
excessive wealth. Sidon seems to have been to Tyre very
nearly what Westminster is to London, as it stood on a
neck of land over against Tyre, and both together formed
a bay about sixteen miles in length. In the country in the
-neighbourhood you meet with gardens planted with orange,
lemon, and all sorts of fruit trees, with springs of water
very sweet and fresh; but though the inhabitants from the
loss of trade are comparatively poor, they are under no
apprehensions of the want or scarcity of provisions, as it is
not worth the attention of the rich to embark their capitals
in any kind of agency or traffic in the prime articles of the
necessaries of life.”
ZZZZZZZZ
The Extraordinary Chestnut-tree on Mount JEtna,
called the Castagna de Cento Caxalli; as relatedby Bry-
done and others.
It had then the appearance of five distinct trees, the space
within them he was assured had once been filled with solid
timber, when the whole formed only one tree. The pos-
sibility of this could not at first be conceived, for the five
trees contained a space of 204 feet in circumference; but
the truth of the same was not only proved by the testimony
of the country, and the accurate examination of the Canon
Recupero,
EXTRAORDINARY CHESTNUT-TREE.
moderns have endeavoured to discover the spring which
supplied them, they could never succeed. The ruins of
ancient Tyre consist of the remains of the walls scattered
in different parts, and mostly buried in the sand; they were
composed of brick and stone, and now appear about ten
feet thick. An old arch which was the gate of the harbour
is still to be seen, but though the harbour has been nearly
filled up with rubbish, small boats can still enter it. Those
who read the prophecies of Isaiah and Ezekiel may form
some ideas of the astonishing wealth and magnificence of
the once-famous cities of Tyre and Sidon, which, in the
end, as many others have been, were ruined only by their
excessive wealth. Sidon seems to have been to Tyre very
nearly what Westminster is to London, as it stood on a
neck of land over against Tyre, and both together formed
a bay about sixteen miles in length. In the country in the
-neighbourhood you meet with gardens planted with orange,
lemon, and all sorts of fruit trees, with springs of water
very sweet and fresh; but though the inhabitants from the
loss of trade are comparatively poor, they are under no
apprehensions of the want or scarcity of provisions, as it is
not worth the attention of the rich to embark their capitals
in any kind of agency or traffic in the prime articles of the
necessaries of life.”
ZZZZZZZZ
The Extraordinary Chestnut-tree on Mount JEtna,
called the Castagna de Cento Caxalli; as relatedby Bry-
done and others.
It had then the appearance of five distinct trees, the space
within them he was assured had once been filled with solid
timber, when the whole formed only one tree. The pos-
sibility of this could not at first be conceived, for the five
trees contained a space of 204 feet in circumference; but
the truth of the same was not only proved by the testimony
of the country, and the accurate examination of the Canon
Recupero,