d'aujourd'hui," Serra di Falco's "Antichità della Sicilia," Walpole's
"Ansayrii," and Canon Tristram's "Land of Israel." The difficulty has
been to select from these copious stores the most salient and noteworthy
facts, and to marshal them in such a form as would make them readily
intelligible to the ordinary English reader. How far he has succeeded in
doing this he must leave the public to judge. In making his bow to them
as a "Reader" and Writer "of Histories,"[04] he has to thank them for a
degree of favour which has given a ready sale to all his previous works,
and has carried some of them through several editions.

CANTERBURY: August 1889.





HISTORY OF PHOENICIA



CHAPTER I--THE LAND

Phoenicia--Origin of the name--Spread of the name
southwards--Real length of Phoenicia along the coast--
Breadth and area--General character of the region--The
Plains--Plain of Sharon--Plain of Acre--Plain of Tyre--Plain
of Sidon--Plain of Berytus--Plain of Marathus--Hilly
regions--Mountain ranges--Carmel--Casius--Bargylus--Lebanon--
Beauty of Lebanon--Rivers--The Litany--The Nahr-el-Berid--
The Kadisha--The Adonis--The Lycus--The Tamyras--The