[Footnote 265:  Tristram, Land of Israel, pp. 61, 599.]

[Footnote 266:  Ibid. pp. 38, 626, &c.  Dr. Robinson notices the cultivation of the potato high up in Lebanon; but he observed it only in two places (Later Researches, pp. 586, 596).]

[Footnote 267:  It can scarcely be doubted that Phoenicia contained anciently two other land animals of considerable importance, viz. the lion and the deer.  Lions, which were common in the hills of Palestine (1 Sam. xvii. 34; 1 Kings xiii. 24; xx. 36; 2 Kings xvii. 25, 26) and frequented also the Philistine plain (Judg. xiv. 5), would certainly not have neglected the lowland of Sharon, which was in all respects suited for their habits.  Deer, which still inhabit Galilee (Tristram, Land of the Israel, pp. 418, 447), are likely, before the forests of Lebanon were so greatly curtailed, to have occupied most portions of it (See Cant. ii. 9, 17; viii. 14).  To these two Canon Tristram would add the crocodile (Land of Israel, p. 103), which he thinks must have been found in the Zerka for that river to have been called “the Crocodile River” by the Greeks, and which he is inclined to regard as still a denizen of the Zerka marshes.  But most critics have supposed that the animal from which the Zerka got its ancient name was rather some large species of monitor.]

[Footnote 268:  Kenrick, Phoenicia, p. 36.]

[Footnote 269:  See his article on Lebanon in Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible, ii. 87.]

[Footnote 270:  Land of Israel, p. 447.]

[Footnote 271:  Houghton, in Smith’s Dict. of the Bible, ad voc.  BEAR, iii. xxv.]

[Footnote 272:  Dict. of the Bible, ii. 87.]

[Footnote 273:  Land of Israel, p. 116.  Compare Porter’s Giant Cities of Bashan, p. 236.]

[Footnote 274:  Cant. iv. 8; Is. xi. 6; Jer. v. 6; xiii. 23; Hos. xiii. 7; Hab. i. 8.]

[Footnote 275:  Land of Israel, l.s.c.]

[Footnote 276:  Ibid. p. 83.]

[Footnote 277:  Ibid. p. 115.]

[Footnote 278:  Walpole’s Ansayrii, iii. 23.]

[Footnote 279:  Houghton, in Smith’s Dict. of the Bible, ad voc.  CONEY (iii. xliii.); Tristram, Land of Israel, pp. 62, 84, 89.]

[Footnote 280:  Tristram, Land of Israel, p. 106.]

[Footnote 281:  Ibid. pp. 88, 89.]

[Footnote 282:  Tristram, Land of Israel, p. 83.]

[Footnote 283:  Ibid. p. 55.]

[Footnote 284:  Ibid. p. 103.  Compare Walpole, Ansayrii, iii. 34, 188, and Lortet, La Syrie d’aujourd’hui, pp. 58, 61.]

[Footnote 285:  Hist.  Nat. ix. 36.]

[Footnote 286:  Kenrick, Phoenicia, p. 239.  There are representations of the Buccunum in Forbes and Hanley’s British Mollusks, vol. iv. pl. cii.  Nos. 1, 2, 3.]

[Footnote 287:  Kenrick, p. 239.]