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Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
St John Phocas, tr. Stewart, 1889
Chapter 5
Next comes Zebelet1; and then comes Berytus,2 a large and populous city, set round about with spacious meadows, and adorned with a fair harbour. The harbour is not a natural one, but has been wrought by art, and is embosomed in the city in the form of a half-moon, and at the two extremities of the half-moon are placed, as horns, two great towers, from one of which a chain is drawn across to the other, and shuts in the ships within the harbour. This place is on the border between Syria and Phœnicia.
Notes
- Jebeil. Daniel has Zebel.
- Beirūt.