Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . ows, and from the cedars, whichformed a black cloud upon them, by wide and gentle slopes, rounding intoswards of yellow and delicate green, like that on the high groups of Jura orthe Alps: a multitude of foaming rivulets, issuing, on all sides, from thedissolving snow, ploughed these grassy banks, and united in a single body ofwhirling waves at the foot of the first declivity. There the valley fell, allat once, 400 or 500 feet deep ; and the torrent was precipitated wit
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . ows, and from the cedars, whichformed a black cloud upon them, by wide and gentle slopes, rounding intoswards of yellow and delicate green, like that on the high groups of Jura orthe Alps: a multitude of foaming rivulets, issuing, on all sides, from thedissolving snow, ploughed these grassy banks, and united in a single body ofwhirling waves at the foot of the first declivity. There the valley fell, allat once, 400 or 500 feet deep ; and the torrent was precipitated with it, in awide volume, now covering the rock, as if with a liquid and transparentcurtain, now leaping and shooting into arches, and falling at last on largesharp-pointed blocks of granite, torn from the summit, where it was brokeninto floating shreds, and roared like endless thunder; the blast of the fallreached even the point where we stood, carrying with it the spray of a thou-sand tints, like a vapoury mist, throwing it over the whole valley, orhanging it like dew upon the leaves of the shrubs and the rough points of. Convent of St. Anthony near Eden. ROUTE TO TRIPOLI AND THE CEDARS. 117 the rock. Advancing towards the north, the Valley of Saints dived moreand more, and expanded into greater width, when, about two miles fromwhere we were standing, two bare and frowning mountains graduallyapproached each other, scarcely leaving an opening of a few yards betweentheir two extremities, where the valley was terminated and lost with itsgreen banks, hanging vines, poplars, cypresses, and milky torrent. Overthese two mountains that thus choked it, we could perceive, at the horizon,what seemed a lake of deeper blue than the sky—it was a portion of theSyrian sea, inclosed in a curiously-formed gulf by other mountains ofLebanon. This gulf was twenty leagues from us; but the transparency ofthe atmosphere brought it, as it were, to our feet; and we distinguishedeven two ships under sai
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