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 . e 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 cap
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 . e 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 are long and gradual, and furrowedfrom top to bottom with deep rugged ravines,—broken everywhere by lofty cliffs of white rock, andtens of thousands of terrace walls rise like steps ofstairs from the sea to the snow capped peaks farabove. Nearly the whole mass of the mountain consists ofa whitish limestone, or at least the rocky surface, asit everywhere exhibits a whitish aspect. The moun-tains of Lebanon teem with villages, and are culti-vated more or less nearly to the top. Yet so steep androcky is the surface that the tillage is carried or « S^^ --^x. mostly by means of terraces built up with great labor,and covered above with soil. In looking upwardsfrom below the vegetation on the terraces is not seen,so that the whole mountain side appears as if com-posed of immense rugged masses of naked rocks, andone ignorant of the topographical peculiarities andao;ricultural resources of this region would not sus-pect that among these rocks there existed a multitudeof thrifty villages, and a numerous population ofhardy, industrious, and brave mountaineers. But onreversing the view, and looking down the westernslope from the brow of one of the projecting bluffs,a totally different, and highly picturesque scene ispresented to view. The small areas at the tops ofthe terraces are gree
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