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 . \m •1 % 1 J Galilee near Acre, lat. 33° and extends in a nortlieasterly direction, and nearly parallel with the Mediterranean, to the plain of Ilamath in lat. 34° 40,making its extreme length 100 geographical miles,and the average width of its base is about 20 highest peak, Dahr el Kudib, is 25 miles fromthe northern extre
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 . \m •1 % 1 J Galilee near Acre, lat. 33° and extends in a nortlieasterly direction, and nearly parallel with the Mediterranean, to the plain of Ilamath in lat. 34° 40,making its extreme length 100 geographical miles,and the average width of its base is about 20 highest peak, Dahr el Kudib, is 25 miles fromthe northern extremity, and jnst above a grove ofthe cedars. Its elevation is 10,051 feet; 23 milesto the southward of this is the massive round sum-mit of Sunin,—8,500 feet high ; and the next highestpeak is Jebel-Keniseh, 6,824 feet. The twin peaks,the highest peaks of Southern Lebanon, are about6,700 feet high. From these the fall is rapid to theravine of the river Litany. The view of Lebanon from the Mediterraneanis grand and picturesque. It appears to risefrom the deep like a vast wall; the top coveredwith snow during winter and spring; and the highestpeaks capped with ice and snow throughout the sul-triest days of mid-summer. The slopes facing theMediterranean ar
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