. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . ANCIENT SCULPTURES, 69 sand years, have much to tell the student of mans past his-tory, could we but break the seal, and read the long roll ofrevelations. Those faintly-cut emblems of Sesostris, thosestern, cold soldiers of Chaldea, those inscriptions in Persian,Greek, Latin, and Arabic, each embodies a history of itself,or rather tells of one written elsewhere, which we long topossess. I have drawings of these figures, and copies of theinscriptions, which you may s
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . ANCIENT SCULPTURES, 69 sand years, have much to tell the student of mans past his-tory, could we but break the seal, and read the long roll ofrevelations. Those faintly-cut emblems of Sesostris, thosestern, cold soldiers of Chaldea, those inscriptions in Persian,Greek, Latin, and Arabic, each embodies a history of itself,or rather tells of one written elsewhere, which we long topossess. I have drawings of these figures, and copies of theinscriptions, which you may study at your leisure. They,of course, imply much more than they directly I was told that a large part of the river issues from a cavesome six miles above the sea. Have you ever visited thespot ? 00 THE LAND AND THE BOOK. Several times; and it is worth the ride. The scenery,also, around the sources of the river, high up under Sunnin,is very romantic. As this is the Lycus of the ancients, witha history and a myth of its own, we may spend a few moremoments upon it without growing weary of the subject. Noone who has eyes, or deserves to have them, will pass up theriver from its mouth without stopping again and again toadmire the gray cliffs towering up to the sky on either aqueduct will also attract attention, clinging to the per-pendicular rock, and dressed out in drooping festoons ofivy, and other creepers, whose every twig and leaf sparklewith big drops of brightest crystal. Where the river turnsto the south, the ravine becomes too narrow, wild, and rockyfor any but a goat-path, and the road leads thence over thesteep shoulder of the mountain for a
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