34ｺ 48' nearly.

It was distant from the shore about two miles and a half.

The island was even smaller than that which formed the nucleus of Tyre, being only about 800 yards, or less than half a mile in length, by 500 yards, or rather more than a quarter of a mile in breadth.[435] The axis of the island was from north-west to south-east.

It was a bare rock, low and flat, without water, and without any natural soil.

The iron coast was surrounded on three sides, the north, the west, and the south, by a number of rocks and small islets, which fringed it like the trimming of a shawl.