. Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle. evergreen forests, as thepoet describes it, A diamond set round with emeralds. Themorning sun lighted up its white walls, and glanced from itspolished domes, and the gilded crescents of its hundred mina-rets. Gardens and orchards teeming with fruit-trees of almostevery species surround the city, and spread far away over theplain. An enchanting variety, too, is given to this panorama* Monod. DAMASCUS. 129
. Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle. evergreen forests, as thepoet describes it, A diamond set round with emeralds. Themorning sun lighted up its white walls, and glanced from itspolished domes, and the gilded crescents of its hundred mina-rets. Gardens and orchards teeming with fruit-trees of almostevery species surround the city, and spread far away over theplain. An enchanting variety, too, is given to this panorama* Monod. DAMASCUS. 129 of verdure—the foliage of these plantations exhibiting everytint of color, from the sombre hue of the olive, and the deepgreen of the cypress and the walnut, to the auburn of theapricot, and the reddening shade of the pomegranate, and thewhite and glistening leaves of the poplar. And the view isas extensive as it is beautiful. Towards the west, over thelow range that bounds the plain, towers the lofty Hermon,the hoary-headed chief of the Eastern hills. An undulatingcountry, watered by the Pharpar, stretches along its , the low chain of the Jeb-el-Aswad, and the loftier. hills of Mania rise beyond, while far away in the distancemay be seen the dim and blue outline of Jebel Hauran. Onthe south-east there is nothing to arrest the eye, save-the dimand quivering haze that hovers over the burning desert. East-ward, the morning sun is reflected from the waters of theBahr-el-Merj [the Lake of the Meadow] and beyond it is aclump of hills, whose graceful summits rise up with clear out-line from the mists that veil their bases. To the north-eastruns a long line of hills towards Tadmor in the wilderness. The fertility and beauty of this vast plain, and the verysxistence of the city itself, depend entirely on the waters of 6* 130 FORTY-THIRD WEEK FRIDAY. the Barada (Abana). Before entering the plain, four largecanals are led off from it at different elevations. These arecarr
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