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 . IIM f i ^1 the Chaldee of Daniel and Ezra. Their physicalcharacter also marks them as the same race. Although the soil is rich and fertile, and capable ofsustaining a vast population, still a curse appears tohang over the land, and the number of its inhabi-tants is yearly diminishing, so that there seems to beno prospect that for ge
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 . IIM f i ^1 the Chaldee of Daniel and Ezra. Their physicalcharacter also marks them as the same race. Although the soil is rich and fertile, and capable ofsustaining a vast population, still a curse appears tohang over the land, and the number of its inhabi-tants is yearly diminishing, so that there seems to beno prospect that for generations to come this oncefavored country will be other than a wilderness. DAMASCUS. ITS GREAT A^TIQUnY A SKETCH OF ITS HISTOEY ITS SINGULAB ANCIENT RUINS. This is the oldest city in the world still standing,and was an ancient city in the time of Christ. Forover four thousand years Damascus has been a spec-tator of the events of the world. She takes note oftime not by months or years, but by the kingdomsand empires she has seen rise, flourish, and pass villages she saw Baalbek, Thebes, and Ephesusgrow into cities that amazed the world with theirsize and grandeur—then witnessed their decay anddesolation, and saw their ruins inhabited by owlsand
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