Phenicia
in ancient geography, in the largest sense, a narrow strip of country extending nearly the whole a funeral pyre of wood and aromatic length of the E. coast of the Mediter- gums, to which she set fire by the fanranean Sea, from Antioch to the borders ning of her wings, and so consumed herof Egypt. But Phoenicia proper was in- self; but from the ashes she sprang up cluded between the cities of Laodicea, in again in youth and freshness. Hence Syria, and Tyre, comprehending mainly the phoenix is depicted as an emblem of the phenix is depicted as an emblem of the territories of Tyre and Sidon, and immortality. In heraldry the bird is forming then only a a part pa of the country represented in coat-armor in flames. of Canaan. Before Joshua conquered Figuratively, a paragon; a person or Palestine, this country was possessed by thing of extreme rarity or excellence. Canaanites, sons of Ham, divided into