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twelve miles towards the hills along the coasts of Lancashire and Cumberland-the whole of it, not quite, the area of Lancashire alone.

The capital cities in Joshua’s time were in divided power-Great Sidon and Strong Tyre (Joshua xix. 28, 29), Tyre being founded on a rocky island, three miles round, with a sea channel nearly a mile wide between it and the shore.

[Here the MS. breaks off, the other sheets which deal with Tyre containing only references and memoranda. Ruskin gave his general conception of Tyre in Fors Clavigera, Letter 64. “Tyre is the Hamite slavish pleasure of sensual and idolatrous art, clothing her nakedness with sea purple. She is lady of all beautiful carnal pride, and of the commerce that feeds it.”]

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