The daily crescent., 1849-07-02

We paired from Kauta an hous hsols daFfrsaI h
and ascended several haTTe8 and rocky slestsha
ing INTO the sea From The snmmit of the last ard
most elevated of these aacents TYRE Is teIsld hr-
paanng at the extremity of a vasl and barren sls-
vaiiOn- Between tho sea and fhe last heights Of
Lebanon, which here rapidly diminish, extends 8
Naked barren plain oi about twenty miles ii lerf
and four Or FIVE in BREADTH Of yellow tint COW
eied only with thorny shrubs, broused BY gbs cam
els Of The caravan on their passage. Tyre is Duift
on a peninsula stretching into The sea- and connect
ed with the continent By uaFrOW neck Of land
covered with q golden sand waited by ire wind
from Egypt This ciiYsat present called Aoul by
the Arabs il stuated AZ The ariheat extremity of
the above mentioned peninsula, and seems d Fs
out Of the waves. AZ distances; You would niiH
imagine i @ BE- new, beautiful, white and ani-
ov, which yanishes on approaching T. a few
hundreds Of falling houses il Wligh The Arabs
Told large h0cks Of sheep and blscE goai9 with
hapgIng ears, which defied befoFe on the slain,
are all that remain Of Tyre! She has no lonssra &
port on The ieeas no longer roads upon land tbs
prophecies respecting her were long since accom-
Plshed.s We travelled on IN silence. occupied bV
the iboughs Of this desolafi0n, and Of the dHl q
~ s. empire p. Naicl We IrOd under our feet F
along the paths between the ruins and the gray and
naked hills Of Lebanon, which hers descend o. ihe
plain, we arrived at the cry, now 6aHkS 81 8
sandbank, which seems ifs only existing rampant,
but which will doubtless ere long bury the Town
undef Us mass ! thought Of the prophecies, and
endeavored 10 bring TO my recollection some Of
those eloquent warnings with which The divine
spirit inspired Ezekiel j could not recall ths
%grus. out discover the meaning in the deploF-
aDe waste before nv eyes.
had now before NE tie black Lebanon
out said to myself, my imagination has deceived
me see neitheF the eagles nor the yaliuEes
WHICH, according % The prophecies, sgere % descend
increasingly from the mountains 10 desDo even the {
remains Of The city, accursed Of God, and the
enemy Of his people, Al the mOmenfI made these
Ieusetions, something huge, grpiesqug, and mo-
llonlsss, Appeared a. our lets on Inc summit Of a
pointed rock, which advanced iufo the plafn nor
far dislanf, close to the r0Hte Of the caravans ig
locked 10 me like five of black st0ne placed
on the rock as q pedestal but from certain ma-
uos' almost imperceptble Of these colossal figures,
we tancied, on approaching nearer that thew uer8
hVs Bedouin Arabs clothed in their sacks Of black
goats hair, who were hooking atus a. we passed.
When, however, we came AZ distance Of fftV
PAGES from the roch, one of the figures dis
play an immense pair Of wings, which hapDed with
noise resembling that Of q sail shaking ia the
breeze, and it.nOw became clear that The figures
We're those Of five eagles, Of the largest kind have
ever seen IN the AiRs or menageTies or our cifea.
They did NOT take fight, hut remained unHoved at.
our approach. seated like kings of the desert,
.ihey seemed 70 regard Tyfs as fheir proper prey.
could not cease from contemplating this prophecy
N noetion--4his wonderful lulfiment df Ihs divins
msnaces, Of which chadoe bad rendered ns wit
nesses. Never had anything more supernatural
struck my eyes riveied my mind and e re-
qnred an effort Of reason, not % see behind these
five gigantic eagles, the great and leFrible figure
q the post Of vengeanes--of zekiei--rsine above
them, and pointing out tntbem, with eve aud hand.
the city whieh God had given 90 tl.em for prey.
now inHnd that my posgical imaginalion had
ex1ieiied . ne tho ea7 as q Tyre i9 1ilhiulIV.
less itpiesiyelys ess pupeFnataFally &han the fact
warranted.
W e afIiFedet noon, after march of seven hours.
u t1e midst q the plain Of Tyre, at place called
The vslla 81 Solomon. AlftaveAsera " desefilal
these wells they consist Of three reservoirs AZ
hmpld, running water. which iaane AZ ID were ~
enchantments from low, dry, aud barfen SOIL at
ihe distance OF two miles fcm Tyres Each of
these reservoirs, raised aFtifcially about twenty
feet above the level of the plain Is full 10 the hri
ana Is indeed continually running over. The ex-
cess Of The fluid is employed to iIIrn the wheels Of
malls, and the water is conveyed 70 Tyre bV aaus-
ducts, bali ancient, half modern, which have q
oeautIfnl effect, seen on the horizon Il is said
that Solomon ordered these wells to BE- made to re-
eompense Tyre and It's King Hiram for the services
he had received from that mOnafch's navy and in
artists, during the building Of the Templs
These immense wells are each from seventy to
eighty feet IN circumference their depth is nm
known, and indeed Is said TO be hottomlees Noone
has ever been able to learn by what mystsrious
channels the waters from the mountains arrive
and there is at least every reason to believe thal
they are immense Artesjan wells constructed 4hou-
sands. Of years before their discovery 81 fhe
moderns.-- LanlartiRe's Pilgrimage.