ations, or both, are (besides Movers' and Kenrick's)
M. Ernest Renan's "Mission de Phenicie," General Di Cesnola's "Cyprus,"
A. Di Cesnola's "Salaminia," M. Ceccaldi's "Monuments Antiques de
Cypre," M. Daux's "Recherches sur les Emporia Pheniciens," the
"Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum," M. Clermont-Ganneau's "Imagerie
Phenicienne," Mr. Davis's "Carthage and her Remains," Gesenius's
"Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae Monumenta," Lortet's "La Syrie
d'aujourd'hui," Serra di Falco's "Antichita 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
Bostrenus--The Zaherany--The Headlands--Main
characteristics, inaccessibility, picturesqueness,
productiveness.

Phoenice, or Phoenicia, was the name originally given by the Greeks--and
afterwards adopted from them by the Romans--to the coast region of the
Mediterranean, where it faces the west between the thirty-second and the
thirty-sixth parallels. Here, it would seem, in their early voyagings,
the Pre-Homeric Greeks first came upon a land where the palm-tree was
not only indigenous, but formed a leading and striking characteristic,
everywhere along the low sandy shore lifting its tuft of feathery
leaves into the bright blue sky, high above the undergrowth of fig, and
pomegranate, and alive. Hence they called the tract Phoenicia, or "the
Land of Palms;" and the people who inhabi