Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . getting them ready forsea; the mouths of these streams are also historiclocalities of considerable impoi-tance. The bay atthe mouth of the Nahr-el-Kelb is a short distancenorth of Beyroot, the situation of which will bemiderstood by reference to the illustration. In theforeground is the bay, and on the right are thepoints which jut
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . getting them ready forsea; the mouths of these streams are also historiclocalities of considerable impoi-tance. The bay atthe mouth of the Nahr-el-Kelb is a short distancenorth of Beyroot, the situation of which will bemiderstood by reference to the illustration. In theforeground is the bay, and on the right are thepoints which jut out into it north-east of Bej^root,The mouth of the river is discovered just beyondthe rocky promontory, across tlie bay. On the pro-montory are inscriptions and sculptures engravedby the conquerors of Syria, from Egypt, Assyria,Macedonia and France ; and above, far away in thedistant sky, the peaks of Lebanon ai-e seen, whitenedwith eternal snows. The mouth of the Kadisha is thirty-five milesnorth of the mouth of the Nahr-el-Kelb, and here isan ancient port, also the ruins of ancient town of Tripolis is a short distance up the river. Wliat interesting recollections cluster around thislittle harbor! Here nearly three tliousand yeai-s ago I 1(1.
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