Nῆσός τις πόλις ἐστί φυτώνυμον αῖμα λαχοῦσα
Ίσθμὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ πορθμὸν ἐπ' ἠπείροιο φέρουσα,
Ένθ'Ἥφαιστος ἔχων χαίρει γλαυκώπιν 'Αθηνην.
Κεῖθι θυηπολίην σε φἐρειν κέλομσι Ήρακλῆι.
Tyre is called by Euripides, φοίνισσα νήσος, (Phœn. 211,) was built upon a small island, 200 furlongs from the shore. Alexander took it, after having joined the island to the continent by a mole.
[31] Herod. B. ii. c. 44, gives an account of his visit to the temple of the Tyrian Hercules, and of the rich offerings which he saw in it.
[32] "The fire had power in the water, forgetting his own virtue; and the water forget his own quenching nature."—Wisdom, xix. 20.
[33] See p. 234 of Brewster's Natural Magic, for a solution of the acoustic wonder of the vocal sounds emitted by the statue of Memnon.
[34] Herod. iii. 102, says of the Indian soil—
Ή δὲ ψάμμος ἠ αναφερομένη εστὶ χρυσῖτις.
[35] Herod. Β. iv. 195, gives an account of a lake in the isle Cyraunis, on the east of Africa, from which the young women obtain gold-dust by means of feathers smeared with pitch.
[36] τῶν θεωρῶν.