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434 of cities of which the remembrance only exists. "We then come to the Promontory of Carmelus and, upon the moun- tain, a town of that name, formerly called Acbatana. Next to this are Getta, Jeba, and the river Pacida, or Belus , which throws up on its narrow banks a kind of sand from which glass is made : this river flows from the marshes of Cendebia, at the foot of Mount Carmelus. Close "to this river is Ptolemais, formerly called Ace, a colony of Claudius Caesar; and then the town of Ecdippa, and the promon- tory known as the White Promontory. "We next come to the city of Tyre, formerly an island, separated from the mainland by a channel of the sea, of great depth, 700 paces in width, but now joined to it by the works which were thrown up by Alexander when besieging it, — the Tyre so famous in ancient times for its offspring, the cities to which it gave birth, Leptis, Utica, and Carthage , — that rival of the Roman sway, that thirsted so eagerly for the