The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . roach to the city was through extensive sub-urban gardens, wherein the vine, the fig, the pomegran-ate, the apricot, the lemon, and the orange blended theirfoliage and their blossoms, producing a pleasing the groves rose the domes and minarets, the wallsand towers, of the most elegant city in inland Syria. Onour left was the old Roman castle, crowning the highestof the surrounding hills, and which has been the sceneof many bloody struggles for the conquest of the its geogra
The thrones and palaces of Babylon and Ninevah from sea to sea; a thousand miles on horseback .. . roach to the city was through extensive sub-urban gardens, wherein the vine, the fig, the pomegran-ate, the apricot, the lemon, and the orange blended theirfoliage and their blossoms, producing a pleasing the groves rose the domes and minarets, the wallsand towers, of the most elegant city in inland Syria. Onour left was the old Roman castle, crowning the highestof the surrounding hills, and which has been the sceneof many bloody struggles for the conquest of the its geographical position, Aleppo represents theolder civilization of the East and the better civilization BABYLON AND NINEVEH. 449 of the West. A fortified town, its walls are forty feethigh, penetrated by seven gates, and defended by towersten feet higher than the paiapet. The buildings withinare of stone, and many of them are superior in construc-tion and ornamentation. The city contains two hun-dred fountains, sixty baths, one hundred coffee-houses,one hundred mosques, and many schools and HALT OP A CARAVAN. Of the one hundred thousand inhabitants, three-fourthsare Moslems, and the remainder are Syrian, Greek, Chal-dean, Armenian, Catholic, and Protestant Christians, to-gether with nativ^e and foreign Jews. The Catholicshave divided the Greeks, the Armenians, and Syrians,and greatly outnumber those who have remained stead-fast in the faith of their fathers. In commercial impor-tance and wealth Aleppo is second to Damascus. Being 29 450 THRONES AND PALACES OF but three days from tlie sea-port town of Iskeiiderooii,the trade of Europe passes through its gates to all in-land towns as far soutli as Mosul; and through it flowsthe return commerce of Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, andNorth-eastern Syria, for shipment at Iskenderoon forEgypt, the Levant, Europe, and America. In refinementof manners, in style of living, in social intercourse, thecitizens of Aleppo are the most polished pe
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