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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
deposited the heart and intestines of the grand Crusader, while his bones were carried on
hither, to be lain within the limits of the Sacred Land. Few churches, indeed, can vie in
historic memories with the Cathedral of Tyre.
Yet when we climb up, and, standing on the apse of that old church, look forth upon the
RUINS OK THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH AT TYRE.
Eusebius describes this building as the most splendid of all the temples of Phoenicia. Among the ruins there is a double column of red syenite
granite, now prostrate, consisting of two parallel connected shafts of great size.
sand-heaps on our left, the sea beyond, and the breakwaters, and see the red jagged fragments
to the right, the long history of that church is but of yesterday when compared with the remote
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
deposited the heart and intestines of the grand Crusader, while his bones were carried on
hither, to be lain within the limits of the Sacred Land. Few churches, indeed, can vie in
historic memories with the Cathedral of Tyre.
Yet when we climb up, and, standing on the apse of that old church, look forth upon the
RUINS OK THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH AT TYRE.
Eusebius describes this building as the most splendid of all the temples of Phoenicia. Among the ruins there is a double column of red syenite
granite, now prostrate, consisting of two parallel connected shafts of great size.
sand-heaps on our left, the sea beyond, and the breakwaters, and see the red jagged fragments
to the right, the long history of that church is but of yesterday when compared with the remote