The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . s of these mountains are in the^^?(stern chain. They rise in the Arz Libndn to aheight of more than 9800 feet, as Pahr cl-Qodib;Jebel Makmal; Dahr el-Dubab (Qarn Sauda), about10,000 feet. Exact measurements are wanting. To-wards the south the elevation is not so great: Jebel-elMuneitira, ; .Tebel Sannin, feet. In Anti-libanus the Tala at Musa is 8710 feet in height; Her- mon, 9300. Deposits due to glacier formations maybe oljserved a
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . s of these mountains are in the^^?(stern chain. They rise in the Arz Libndn to aheight of more than 9800 feet, as Pahr cl-Qodib;Jebel Makmal; Dahr el-Dubab (Qarn Sauda), about10,000 feet. Exact measurements are wanting. To-wards the south the elevation is not so great: Jebel-elMuneitira, ; .Tebel Sannin, feet. In Anti-libanus the Tala at Musa is 8710 feet in height; Her- mon, 9300. Deposits due to glacier formations maybe oljserved at the top, but no one has as yet reachedthe actual snow line. Between Lebanon and Anti-libanus extends the table-land of Beqaa, 5 to 9 milesbroad, about 70 miles long, never rising to any height,considered by many the true Coelesyria. The plain ofLebanon (D. V. Libanus) mentioned in Jos., xi, 17,and xii, 7, is probably Merj Aiyun. The southern andcentral parts are very fertile to-day. Near Baalbekis the watershed (about 3800 feet) between south andnorth, between the Nahr el-A?i (Orontes) and theNahr el-Lltani (not the Leontes), which latter as. The Castle of TripoliA stronghold of the Crusaders Nahr el-Qasimiye empties into the sea a little to thenorth of Tyre. The weptern slope of Lebanon hasmany springs and rivers which pierce the limestoneafter a partly subterranean course, e. g. the Nahr el-Kelb. From south to north we come in succession tothe Nahr el-Zaherani; Nahr el-Awali; Nahr Damljr(Tamyras); Nahr Beirut (Magoras); Nahr el-Kelb(Lykus), at the mouth of which Egyptian, Assyrian,Greek, and Latin inscriptions are found; Nahr Ibra-him (Adonis), at whose source was Afga (Apheka), thecelebrated temple of Venus with its lewd and bloodycult, destroyed by Constantino; finally the Nahrel-Joz, and Nahr Qadlsha. The eastern slope and theAntilibanus are less favoured. In the north and east ofAntilibanus there is great scarcity of water. Towardsthe south there are a few tributaries o
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