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 . r-el-Kelb(Dog River), Nahr-el-Kebir, Kadisha, and the rivers are fed by the eternal snows on the sum-mits of the mountains, and their waters are all re-freshingly cool until far down the mountain sides. Among the most noted is the Nahr-el-Kelb, whichrises high up on the flank of the peak of Sunninand dashes down through
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 . r-el-Kelb(Dog River), Nahr-el-Kebir, Kadisha, and the rivers are fed by the eternal snows on the sum-mits of the mountains, and their waters are all re-freshingly cool until far down the mountain sides. Among the most noted is the Nahr-el-Kelb, whichrises high up on the flank of the peak of Sunninand dashes down through a deep glen. To the Masonthe mouth of this river is a place of great interest,as being one of the two places where the cedars weremade up into floats to be conveyed to Joppa for theTemple of Solomon. The Leontes—The sources of this river are atBaalbek, and Chalcis. The upper section of thisstream is now called the Litany, and the lower sec-tion, the Kasimiyeh. The Kadisha, or Sacred River,—has its highestsource around the most important grove of cedars,and decends through a deep, grand ravine 1,000 feetdeep. Here, on opposite banks, are two villages thepeople of which can easily converse across the chasm,but to reach each other would require a toilsome. walk of hours. In a wild cleft of this ravine is theconvent of Kanobin, the residence of the Maronilepatriarch. The mouth of this river is a short dis-tance below Tripolis, and here also a considerableportion of the cedar-timber for the Temple wasbrought from the mountains to be conveyed to Adonis—was famous Jn ancient fable as thescene of the romantic story of Adonis and was said to have been killed by a boar on itsbanks, and his blood dyed the waters, which have eversince, on the anniversary of his death, run red to thesea. The source of this stream is a noble fountainbeside the ruins of a temple of Yenus, and near thesite of Aphica. The Adonis empties into the sea, ashort distauce south of Gebal.
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