TOWER OF LIBANUS. Solomon in the Canticles compares his Spouse’s Nose to the Tower of Libanus, which looketh towards Damascus. Travellers speak of a Tower to be seen upon Libanus on the Side of Damascus, which seems to have been very high. Benjamin of Judela assures us, that the Stones of this Tower, the Remains whereof he had seen, were twenty Palms long, and twelve wide1. Maundrell speaks likewise of the same, but he saw it only at a Distance.
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Gabriel Sionita says, that this Tower was an hundred Cubits high, and fifty broad. ↩