Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . Natural Arcli over the Nahrel Leban. their headlong course make their impetus resistless. In some places theyhave burst through the rock, leaving natural arches above them, sucli as thatof Nahr el Leban, or the river of milk, which flows into the river ofBeyroot: this arch is upwards of one hundred and sixty feet long,eighty-five wide, and nearly two hundred feet high above the torrent. LEBANON. 81 Frequently the traveller descries on the hill sides what seem to him at
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . Natural Arcli over the Nahrel Leban. their headlong course make their impetus resistless. In some places theyhave burst through the rock, leaving natural arches above them, sucli as thatof Nahr el Leban, or the river of milk, which flows into the river ofBeyroot: this arch is upwards of one hundred and sixty feet long,eighty-five wide, and nearly two hundred feet high above the torrent. LEBANON. 81 Frequently the traveller descries on the hill sides what seem to him at adistance artificial ruins, great piles of rocks stripped by the waters, skeletons. Convent of Mar Serkis, witu the singular pointed rocks above it. of hills which the floods and the winds have gnawed for ages. In manyplaces the waters, meeting with inclined beds, have undermined the inter-mediate earth, and formed caverns like that which we have alreadydescribed ; in others they have tunnelled out subterraneous channels, throughwhich they flow for a part of the year. But these picturesque situationssometimes become tragical. From thaws and earthquakes, rocks have beenknown to lose their equilibrium, roll down upon the adjacent houses, andbury the inhabitants: such an accident happened about eighty years ago, andoverwhelmed a whole village near Mar-Djordjos, without leaving a singletrace to discover where it formerly stood. Somewhat more recently, nearthe same spot, a whole hill-side, covered with mulberries and vines, wasdetached by a sudden thaw, and, sliding down the declivity of the rock, waslaunched altogether, like a ship from the stocks, into the valley. The S
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