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sur or tyre.
[chap. xix.
instances, tlie flat roofs serve as terraces for a higher row.
Safet 1 contains seven synagogues and an university, or rather
a celebrated Rabbi school. The terrace of the northern castle
commands a fine view of the lake and environs, which are
prettily covered with vines, olive, and almond trees; and the
Probable site position corresponds, in a remarkable manner, to that given of
of Jotapata. J 0 tapata by Josephus, being almost all built upon a precipice,
and having about it immensely deep valleys. 2 This was, accord
ing to Tacitus, the strongest place in Galilee; and, under the
Jewish general and historian, it vigorously resisted Vespasian ;
it does not, however, appear that the like vigour was displayed
by the same general when the place was stormed by Titus. 3
Town of Sur, Near the north-western extremity of the district is
or Tyre. modern Sur, or Tsur, and around it are the remains of the
once great commercial emporium of Tyre. The former
occupies the northern extremity of the peninsula, once an
island, and also part of the neck of land which now connects
the latter with the main. The town is tolerably clean, and
contains one mosque, the ruins of an ancient Christian church,
with nearly 700 houses, usually of one story, and about 2500
persons. The inhabitants obtain the requisite supply of water
from two cisterns a little way outside of the town; and, as
these are in an artificial isthmus, an opinion prevails that the
supply comes from the fountains of Solomon, at Ras-el-Am.
Remains of the On the side of the isthmus are the remains of the walls and
one of the gates; part of the walls, with several columns
and other vestiges of the ancient city, may also be traced
along both the eastern and western side. The eastern
buildings form one side of the small port, from which some
trade is still carried on, chiefly in cotton and tobacco; and at
the northern extremity is the fort and pharos constructed by
the Crusaders. At the close of the eleventh century it was a
pretty town, with a suburb ; and was famous for the manu
facture of glass, earthen vessels, and white stuffs of superior
1 The castle and a great part of the city have since been destroyed by the
terrible earthquake which visited this part of the country on the 1st January,
1831. 8 Jos., De Bello Jud., lib. III., chap. viii.
3 Tacitus, Appendix to book XVL, sec. x.