The Holy Land and the Bible; . n-route from Lake Merom tothe Plain of Damascus; perhaps by the Sidonians, in the remote dayswhen they had settlements in these parts. After the death of Christ, Caesarea Philippi, re-named ISTeronias byIlerod Agrippa IT., saw strange sights. When Jerusalem had fallen,Titus celebrated his triumph here by public games, in which Jewishprisoners were compelled to fight with wild beasts and with each the Crusades, it was repeatedly taken and-retaken, but finallycame .into the hands of the Saracens in 1165. A gateway alone nowremains in any tolerable pres
The Holy Land and the Bible; . n-route from Lake Merom tothe Plain of Damascus; perhaps by the Sidonians, in the remote dayswhen they had settlements in these parts. After the death of Christ, Caesarea Philippi, re-named ISTeronias byIlerod Agrippa IT., saw strange sights. When Jerusalem had fallen,Titus celebrated his triumph here by public games, in which Jewishprisoners were compelled to fight with wild beasts and with each the Crusades, it was repeatedly taken and-retaken, but finallycame .into the hands of the Saracens in 1165. A gateway alone nowremains in any tolerable preservation, to attest the strength of thedefences of the town. Its walls, over six feet thick, rise beside thebridge which spans the channel of the Jordan in one arch of hugestones. Below, the waters rush on over a wide confusion of rocks,mostly basalt: picturesque but wild. Into the streets, which are merelanes, the stones of generations of houses, and from a wide extent offields, have been allowed to fall, or have been btruiglit Strcut in Damascus. (Sec page iJUU.) ^LIX.] ,Yii^ LEBANON MOUNTAIJJS. 593 CHAPTER XLIX. THE LEBANON MOUNTAINS, From Banias we set out for Damascus, tlie road leading up longslopes, in many places very stony, with basalt cliffs breaking out atone place, ploughed land at another, and smooth rock at a of delightful sound ran down the hill-sides. Clumps of myrtleswere not infrequent, and at some places terraces had been built alongthe sides to retain the soil. A few olives were to be seen now andthen, and the great hill on which the castle stands was covered withtliem to the very top. Industry is a characteristic of the peasant inthe Holy Land, and the Druses are no exception to the rule, so that Iwas not astonished to find, as the path still mounted from height toheight, patches of green wheat, beans, or lentils, wherever the rockpermitted. Jebel esh Sheikh, or Hermon, did not look so high as wewere ascending it; and the snow, which a
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