. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . mall vessels appearing above its banks. Else-where the bay, which is seven miles wide, is encircledby a mountain girdle of striking grandeur, varied hereand there by spots of soft and most attractive , a wall of rock rises from the water belowthe wooded sides and culminating bald peak of MountCassius, from which the outlying range of Jebel El-Akrab runs eastward at an elevation of 5,318 to this bold range is the valley of the Orontes,wi
. Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837. . mall vessels appearing above its banks. Else-where the bay, which is seven miles wide, is encircledby a mountain girdle of striking grandeur, varied hereand there by spots of soft and most attractive , a wall of rock rises from the water belowthe wooded sides and culminating bald peak of MountCassius, from which the outlying range of Jebel El-Akrab runs eastward at an elevation of 5,318 to this bold range is the valley of the Orontes,with the hills of Antioch showing near its termination. A little to the northward of the El-Akrab rangeappears Bin-Kiliseh (a thousand churches), and theruins of the convent St. Simon Stylites, standing amidstgroves of arbutus and myrtles. More northward still,and forming the opposite horn of the Bay of Antioch,is Jebel Musa, a wooded and picturesque mountain, withthe extensive cavern and excavations of Seleucia on itslower slope, which terminates this remarkable pano-rama. 170 NARRATIVE OF THE EUPHRATES EXPEDITION. The twovesselsanchor inthe bay. RUINED CONVENT OF ST. SIMON STYLITES. I lost no time in landing near Suedia, but it wasqnite dark before we arrived; and finding a good deal ofsurf on the beach, I was forced to give up my intentionof communicating with Lieutenant Lynch, and returnedto pass the night in the George Canning, under theimpression that all was now smooth. We were whollyunprepared for the vexatious and almost insurmountableimpediments which we subsequently encountered, butwhich were eventually overcome during the succeedingeleven months by the officers and men of the EuphratesExpedition.
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