. V. R. I. : Queen Victoria, her life and empire. ^> 1 - -.■> : ,4 ^^^-^^. THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT They stand on a little island, as it were, planted on thecentre of the barren mountains, the island consisting ofseven hills, or knolls, of which six are arranged round theseventh—a square mount, in the midst of which stands therude Maronite chapel. These knolls give a peculiarity to the place for which Iwas not prepared. The great old cedars are not, as I imag-ined, all collected together, but are interspersed with theiryounger brethren, two or three standing on the centralknoll, f
. V. R. I. : Queen Victoria, her life and empire. ^> 1 - -.■> : ,4 ^^^-^^. THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT They stand on a little island, as it were, planted on thecentre of the barren mountains, the island consisting ofseven hills, or knolls, of which six are arranged round theseventh—a square mount, in the midst of which stands therude Maronite chapel. These knolls give a peculiarity to the place for which Iwas not prepared. The great old cedars are not, as I imag-ined, all collected together, but are interspersed with theiryounger brethren, two or three standing on the centralknoll, four or five on the hill nearer the snow. In one re-spect they are inferior to their English descendants—theyhave not wide, spreading branches feathering to the ground,probably owing to their closeness to each other. One ofthem, I observed, actually supported in its gigantic arm alesser tree whose trunk wasK^uite decayed; but their trunksare very remarkable—so huge, so irregular, so venerable,the gray scales of bark covering them as with a skin. Itwas impossible for us t
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