. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . , after having completedhis share of the transport service between Guzel Burjand Antioch. This city, the modern Antakiyah, even with its mul- city of . Antioch. berry-groves and fruit-gardens, covers but a small partof the ground occupied by the ancient city, though itstill contains 14 mosques, a Mohammedan college, asynagogue, and several baths. The houses, which areof an inferior description, have tiled pent-roofs, andexterior staircases, corridors, and balconies,
. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . , after having completedhis share of the transport service between Guzel Burjand Antioch. This city, the modern Antakiyah, even with its mul- city of . Antioch. berry-groves and fruit-gardens, covers but a small partof the ground occupied by the ancient city, though itstill contains 14 mosques, a Mohammedan college, asynagogue, and several baths. The houses, which areof an inferior description, have tiled pent-roofs, andexterior staircases, corridors, and balconies, with acourt below shaded by orange and pomegranate most remarkable of the ancient gates are those of Its ancient . gates. St. Paul and Bab-el-Jisr, or Gate of the Bridge, whichleads to the bridge over the Orontes. The population * c Expedition to Euphrates and Tigris/ vol. i. p. 425. 190 Walls of NARRATIVE OF THE EUPHRATES EXPEDITION. chap. in 1836 was under 6,000. The walls of the ancientx f city, which are still comparatively perfect, have a cir- Antioch. cumference of about seven miles, and are nearly in the. .TISK HADID. The Acro-polis of thecity. form of a parallelogram, which to the SE. is boundedby a range of high rocky hills, and has on its north-western side the Valley of the Orontes. Walls andsquare towers of surprising solidity * once encircled thisresidence of the Syrian monarch, the seat of pleasure,and the third city of the habitable earth. f At the highest extremity of this lofty range of hills isthe Acropolis, from the eastern side of which, by a boldeffort of genius, the wall has been carried down thealmost vertical face of the cliff, and after crossing thevalley this chain of walls has been made to ascend theopposite steep hill in a zigzag and extraordinarymanner; after which, having again been carried acrossanother hill, it descends in the same daring way to * Joseplius Wars, lib. iii. 3, Bochart Prief. 41. WALLS OF AXTIOCIT. 191 the western wal
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