122 was hooked on to the battlements of the city and then pulled back with great violence, so as to tear away the stones and mortar of the walls. The battering-ram Wás & long, stout beam of oak, one end of which was made of brass, or iron, and shaped like the head of a ram. This end projected out of a kind of house, with a tower on the top. тыі, house was placed on wheels, and covered with tough skins. A sufficient number of soldiers were placed within it, and it was then driven towards the walls, to which when it came near; the soldiers drove the head of the ram repeatedly, and with great violence, against them, endeavouring to make dist opening at which the besiegers might enter. The garrison, or soldiers who defended the city walls, - exerted themselves to the utmost to repel the attacks of the Babylonians. From the towers upon the walls they were constantly sending their arrows and javelins into "the camp of Nebuchadnezzar. For thirteen years he besieged the city still at length the Tyrians could resist no longer, They fied, with the greater part of their property, to an
