Our friend Arculf, a wanderer over several regions, entered Tyre
too, the metropolis of the province of Phoenicia, which in the Hebrew
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and Syriac tongue is called Soar. One reads in Greek, Latin, and barbarian
histories that it had no entry from the land; but some assert that
subsequently mounds were thrown up by Nabuchodonosor, king of the
Chaldeans, that a place was prepared for missiles and battering rams with
a view to a siege and the island thus made into one stretch of land. It
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was a beautiful and very noble city, and not without reason is it rendered
in Latin ‘narrowness’; for the city is commensurate in extent with the
narrow island. It is situated in the land of Canaan, whence the Canaanite,
or Tyrofoenician, woman in the gospel gained her mention.
It is to be noted then that the narrative of the holy Arculf concerning
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the site of Tyre corresponds completely with those extracts above which
we have taken from the commentaries of the holy Jerome. In like manner
what we have written down above concerning the site and shape of
Mount Thabor according to the account of the holy Arculf differs in
no wise from what the holy Jerome relates concerning the site of this
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mountain and its wondrous roundness. From this mount Thabor as far
as Damascus Arculf's journey took seven days.