Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . ately,a fortress in the sea, erected for the defence of the port, and connected withthe land by a long bridge; but both these structures, which were alreadyruinous, received the coup-de-grace from the allied fleet on the 20th of Sep-tember, 1840. The harbour is now incapable of receiving vessels of any LADY HESTER STANHOPE. 303 great draught of water, having been purposely filled up by Fakr-ed-Deen inthe seventeenth century, to prevent the Turkish galleys from finding s
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . ately,a fortress in the sea, erected for the defence of the port, and connected withthe land by a long bridge; but both these structures, which were alreadyruinous, received the coup-de-grace from the allied fleet on the 20th of Sep-tember, 1840. The harbour is now incapable of receiving vessels of any LADY HESTER STANHOPE. 303 great draught of water, having been purposely filled up by Fakr-ed-Deen inthe seventeenth century, to prevent the Turkish galleys from finding houses are solidly built of stone; a fact that would indicate the presenceof some wealth and trade. These, however, have much declined within thelast five-and-thirty years. Down to that period Seyde shared with Beyrootthe advantage of being the sea-port of Damascus, a great part of the valuableforeign trade of which city was here carried on chiefly through the agencyof French merchants. This important element of prosperity has been whollyengrossed by Beyroot, and Seyde has no longer any considerable Seyde. The mountain adjoining Seyde, the place of sepulture of the ancientSidonians, is all honey-combed with cells cut in the rock, and communicatingone with the other by arched doors. The cells are all rectangular, from tento fifteen feet square, and contain three niches, one in each wall; the nicheopposite the door usually exhibits sculptures in white marble surmountingthe sarcophagus. Many of the cells have the walls covered with Phoenicianinscriptions in bright colours. No one can enter them without being struckby the exact similarity they bear to the Egyptian catacombs, especially tothose of Sakara and Alexandria. The Maronites have a small chapel in agarden at the gates of the town; and the tradition runs, that here stood thehouse in which Mary, the sister of Lazarus, died. Up the mountains, about eight miles east of Seyde, is Djoun, whereLady Hester Sta
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