. Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;. eMt. THE CEDARS. 40. Route. 329 soft, and for economical use is far inferior to the timber cf the great modern region of cedars is the Cilician Taurus, where the ex-tensive mountain-range beyond Mersina and Tarsus, and above the ravines,is beautifully clothed with these trees, interspersed with black firs. Inthe Taurus, as well as on Lebanon, two varieties occur: one is the darkgreen, with bright green leaves; the other the silvery white, the leavesof which have a bluish bloom.
. Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;. eMt. THE CEDARS. 40. Route. 329 soft, and for economical use is far inferior to the timber cf the great modern region of cedars is the Cilician Taurus, where the ex-tensive mountain-range beyond Mersina and Tarsus, and above the ravines,is beautifully clothed with these trees, interspersed with black firs. Inthe Taurus, as well as on Lebanon, two varieties occur: one is the darkgreen, with bright green leaves; the other the silvery white, the leavesof which have a bluish bloom. This dimorphism rarely occurs with plantsof the same kind and in the same place. The cedar of Lebanon is onlya local form of a more widely extended species, of which there are twoother varieties, viz. the cedar of the Himalaya (Cedriis deodara Roxburgh)and that of the Atlas (Cedrus atlantica Manetti). Between these three greatgroups is no specific distinction; they merely differ in size, and somewhatin habits, according to the climate to which they belong — the humid . 1 ?/? 1 f .^;- 1 <i . W. f^ y 3J>vi 11. a. mountains of India, the temperate Lebanon, or the dry atmosphere ofAlgeria. The Indian cedar, the wood of the gods (devadaru) in Sanscrit,is one of the most magnificent trees in existence. It attains a height of165 ft. (twice that of the Lebanon cedar) and a circumference of 39 ft.,while its cones are also much larger. The cedar of the Atlas, on the otherhand, in smaller than that of Lebanon; its leaves are very short, its conessmaller, and its growth more gnarled. — The cedar has been frequentlyintroduced into Europe, and thrives particularly well in England. Thosein the .Tardin des Plantes at Paris have grown from seeds imported byTournefort at the beginning of the ISth cent., and are among the oldestin Europe, but are not so tall as one near Geneva, which has attained aheight of 120 ft. 330 Route 40. EHDEN. From Baalhek Leaving the Cedars, -we again
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