TYRE, or Soon., a seaport town of Syria, occu pying the site of ancient Tyre the " Queen of the sea." The walls of the city may still be traced in the form of an irregular square, nearly a mile in circumference. They are fast going to ruin, though sustained here and there with columns of granite. Two or three old rusty cannons are mounted upon them. On the west side the sand reaches nearly to the summit, but on the south and east they are thirty feet high. Remains of ancient niches are seen at the south-west and south-east corners. There is a wooden gate in the eastern side, and on the north a passage is made in the wall. The houses, amounting only to 200 inhabited ones, are well constructed from the ruins of the city; the ruins of a large church, built of hewn stone in the Syrian style, stands without the walls of the city; and to the south of it are very beautiful remains of buildings, which may have belonged to the archie piscopal palace. The ruins of other churches are also visible. At the east end of the harbour, near the walls, are the remains of two Arab towers, one of which is 60, and the other 35 feet in height. They are conjectured to have been reservoirs be longing to the aqueduct. Pocock observed a thick wall stretching from the one to the other. The harbour itself, which extends 80 feet along the shore, and 150 along banks projecting into the sea, admits only boats.
The trade of the place consists chiefly in tobac co, of which 100 cantars (196 lbs. each) are sent to Cairo and Damietta, where it pays £20 to £25 per cantar. Charcoal, dried figs, and faggots of wood are exported to the same places. A large pottery and fishery are farmed for £115.
The inhabitants consist chiefly of Greeks and Catholics, with 12 AIaronite families, but not a gle Jew. East Lon. 35° 20'. North Lat. 33° 10'. TYROL, which is formed of part of the ancient Rhcelia, and which is now a province belonging to the Austrian empire, derives its name from an an cient fort, (Terioli,) situated on a mountain near Meran, or. the Adige. It is bounded on the north by Bavaria; on the west by Switzerland; on the south by the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom; and on the east by Illyria circle of Austria. The superficial extent has been estimated variously, but 7000 square miles may be regarded as not far from the truth; the population has been ascertained to be 762,653.
Tyrol is divided into seven circles; namely, the Upper Inn, the Lower Inn, Pusterthal, the Adige or Botzen, Trente, Roveredo, and Voralherg.
There are 22 towns, of which Inspruck is the capi tal, 36 burghs, and 3150 villages. lnspruck, which signifies the Bridge of the Inn, is situated at the confluence of the Sill and Inn, with a beautiful bridge over the latter river. It is, on the whole, a mean town, though it is distinguished by some good buildings; and its population amounts only to 10,000. Roveredo, the capital of the circle of the same name, is a larger town than the metro polis, containing 13,000 inhabitants. Trente is well known on account of the last Roman Catho lic council having been held there, which lasted from the year 1545 till 1563. Of Schwatz, the chief town of the Lower Inn, the population amounts to 7400, nearly one-third of whom find employment in the copper and silver mines in its neighbourhood. The other more important towns are Botzen, on the Bisach, a tributary of the Inn, population 8000; Ala, on the Adige, 6500; Hall, below Inspruck, 4200; Brixen, on the Bisach, 3800.
The physical appearance of Tyrol is similar to that of Switzerland. The chain of the Alps tra verse it from west to east; the highest ridges are Ischernowand, Orteles, Glokner, and Mount Bren ner, the first being 12,000 feet, the last nearly 6000. There are, besides, two secondary chains, one in the north, separating Tyrol from Bavaria, the other in the south, dividing it from Italy. Glaciers, of which some are several leagues in extent, and ava lanches, dismal precipices, and lofty foaming cata racts, abound as much here as in the country to which we have compared it. Tyrol is exclusively mountainous, with the exception of the valleys which intervene between the different ridges; but these valleys are no fewer than about twenty in number; thus affording, in point of scenery, the most rapid transitions, and the most striking con trasts. The mountains, covered with eternal snow. send down innumerable streams, which add beauty to the respective valleys through which they flow. Two rivers form the recipients of all the lesser streams, the Inn on the north, the Adige on the south. The former, rising in the Grisons and flow ing past Inspruck, loses itself in the Danube at Passau. The Adige takes its rise also in the Gri sons, and after traversing Tyrol and the north of Italy, falls into the Gulf of Venice.