FOUNTAIN of living Waters, which fall with impetuosity from Libanus, and are mentioned in Solomon’s Song. This Fountain, according to modern Travellers, abounds with water, and is found at the distance of a league from Tyre, in the plain. It is built in the form of a square tower, raised fifteen cubits from the ground, and about fifteen foot wide, and in this the water is inclosed as in a well; from whence it passes through certain gates or openings, with so much violence, that in its passage it turns a mill with five mill-stones. Any one may go on horseback up a large staircase of stone, which is on the side that looks towards Tyre, to the top of this edifice. There are besides two other wells, to which any one may go from this first through a channel of about three foot wide. These waters in Solomon’s time belonged without doubt to the Tyrians; and there is no proof that this Prince meant this spring in particular, in the passage cited from his Song.
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