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 . its seat at Bagdad and governedDamascus by a prefect. Subsequently, the city sharedin the manifold vicissitudes which passed over theprovinces of Western Asia, till a. d. 1516, when itfell into the hands of Sultan Selim I.; from whichtime it has remained under the sway of Turkey, thehead of a large pashalic, and the most populous an
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 . its seat at Bagdad and governedDamascus by a prefect. Subsequently, the city sharedin the manifold vicissitudes which passed over theprovinces of Western Asia, till a. d. 1516, when itfell into the hands of Sultan Selim I.; from whichtime it has remained under the sway of Turkey, thehead of a large pashalic, and the most populous andflourishing city in Asiatic Turkey. In tenacity of existence, and the power of retain-ing a certain measure of prosperity under all dynas-ties, and through the most varied successions of fortune, this city stands uniivaled in the worlds history. Damascus is 150 miles n. e. of Jerusalem, and issituated in a plain at the foot of the most easternrange of Anti-Libanus—2300 feet above the level ofthe sea, which gives it a temperate climate and coolbreezes. The plain in which the city stands is 50miles in circumference—open to the desert of Arabiaon the south and east, and bounded on the north andwest by the mountains. mm Mi ?m ?{?? I V^: m ?S-P $k.
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