Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . a steep track along a white and slipperyhill, where the horses could scarcely keep their feet. From the summit wehad a boundless view of all the western seaboard of Syria, as far as the Gulfof Scanderoon and Mount Casius, and a little to the right of the plains ofAleppo and the hills of Antioch, with the course of the Orontes. Thispromontory, now called the Ras-el-Shakkah, admits of no passage round itsedge by the sea. It has a still steeper appearance from the north th
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . a steep track along a white and slipperyhill, where the horses could scarcely keep their feet. From the summit wehad a boundless view of all the western seaboard of Syria, as far as the Gulfof Scanderoon and Mount Casius, and a little to the right of the plains ofAleppo and the hills of Antioch, with the course of the Orontes. Thispromontory, now called the Ras-el-Shakkah, admits of no passage round itsedge by the sea. It has a still steeper appearance from the north than fromthe south, rising almost perpendicularly from the sea, and being probablylittle less than 1000 feet in height. Strabo calls it the Face of the god, (i. the god of the mountain,) and he regards it as the end of MountLebanon, though it is nearer the midlength of the range. It is, however, byfar the most prominent point which Lebanon presents to the sea, and hencethe ancient mariners may have been led to give it the name they did. Threehours journey from the promontory brought us to the gates of Arab dance—Tripoli in the back ground. Tripoli, by the Arabs called Tarabolos, is situated on one of the mostfavoured spots of all Syria, as the maritime plain and the neighbouringmountains place every variety of climate within reach of the inhabitants. Itconsisted originally, as its name imports, of three towns, formed severally bycolonies from Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus, which afterwards coalesced into is not washed by the sea, but lies about a mile and a half from the shore,on the side of one of the lowest spurs of Lebanon, which is surmounted by anold fortress, built, it is supposed, by Raymond de Toulouse, and commanding ROUTE TO TRIPOLI AND THE CEDARS. 105 the city and its environs. Though Tripoli has twelve gates, it is but partiallyinclosed with walls ; but a circular line of houses gives it, externally, some-thing of a fortified appearance. It re
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