. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . he Lakes El-Malak, Greboul, and several others still less quantity of water which accumulates during the winterdissolves a portion of the salt, which afterwards in summerevaporates ; this, at least, appears to me the most simple andnatural explanation. A beautiful fertile plain extends towards the basaltic moun-tain-chain called El-Amri. On leaving; Sfiri all cultivationceases ; but the numerous ruins of villages prove in howmuch better a state this country
. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . he Lakes El-Malak, Greboul, and several others still less quantity of water which accumulates during the winterdissolves a portion of the salt, which afterwards in summerevaporates ; this, at least, appears to me the most simple andnatural explanation. A beautiful fertile plain extends towards the basaltic moun-tain-chain called El-Amri. On leaving; Sfiri all cultivationceases ; but the numerous ruins of villages prove in howmuch better a state this country was at no very remoteperiod. Vegetation begins to revive; numerous bulbousplants, whose existence a few weeks before was not suspected,raise their heads, but not a single species of the phaneroga-mous class has yet been in bloom. An entire system of basaltic rocks has been raised, nodoubt by one of those volcanic eruptions which, from the firsthistorical times, has been so frequent in Syria. Like allbasaltic mountains, it is based on chalk, and forms narrowperpendicular valleys, with cliffs on all sides, and blocks of all.
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