. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. estine and the Damascus plateau from a height of 9400 break of about 40 miles occurs between Hermon and the mountainsof Gilead. This interval is occupied by the plain of el-Jaulan. Thisgreat lava plateau has been formed by the eruptions of the numerousvolcanic cones which diversify its surface. It is bounded eastward byan isolated volcanic chain, the Jebel-el-Duruz (Alsadamus), the hillof Bashan. This chain trends north and south, parallel to the mainsystems, and
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. estine and the Damascus plateau from a height of 9400 break of about 40 miles occurs between Hermon and the mountainsof Gilead. This interval is occupied by the plain of el-Jaulan. Thisgreat lava plateau has been formed by the eruptions of the numerousvolcanic cones which diversify its surface. It is bounded eastward byan isolated volcanic chain, the Jebel-el-Duruz (Alsadamus), the hillof Bashan. This chain trends north and south, parallel to the mainsystems, and appears as if set back from themto a distance of about fortymiles. The outpour of lava from its craters has contributed its shareto the formation of the fertile wheat fields of Bashan. Its highest cone,el-QulGb, is 5400 feet above the sea. The main range, broken as aboveshown by the plain of el-Jaulan, is continued in the mountains ofGilead and Moab, which rise from 000 to 1000 feet above the trans- s ? * Asia Minor must be regarded, from the stand point of its Natural History, as belongingto Europe rather than INTRODUCTION. 23 continuons with that of western Arabia Tfc T,?„T: . ^^? ^^ Se is4800 feet above the Mediterran^attde/oo^ ab^^fKaf ^ea ^^ above the sea level, and extendinc^ nn ly,^ rl . ^/^^ liundred feet where it attains anal?^u?e S^^^4^ 00 fe^ertd Ih n^^.^?^^^^Leontes and the Jordan sink ^^ -^^f^^ ^^^^bah to a height of 600 to 700 feet abovP /hf^ ^ c ^ ^ ^^^^ ^^a- the^count., a. shown in= ^i^^l^l^J^tL^^;^^ plains is arable, and many of them are evnT^\ ^ i^-; I* ° ««««them are coterminous with th/svS,nn«!S°y.*?• ^t » ofthe Dead Sea monntain^ii.^platnraUkeTredesrt ^ ^^ ^ TaurI%tTains t:n:^erawl\tr^t^/P/irT^^^The Nusairy chain has li tie to diS,^mih -F ^a * P.^ » ^^f- lowerzonesof Lebanon Lebanon lXl.,f ^t ^?° ^^^ »f *?=and the considerable h ight of fedp ne s—,/^? P^exceedingly interesting flo=ra, contaln^ira; Z^^ua iV laL. «= .^^of peculiar sp
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