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 . looking upwardsfrom below the vegetation on the terraces is not seen,so that the whole mountain side appears as if com-posed of immense rugged masses of naked rocks, andone ignorant of the topographical peculiarities andao;ricultural resources of this region would not sus-pect that among these rocks there existed a multitudeof thrif
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 . looking upwardsfrom below the vegetation on the terraces is not seen,so that the whole mountain side appears as if com-posed of immense rugged masses of naked rocks, andone ignorant of the topographical peculiarities andao;ricultural resources of this region would not sus-pect that among these rocks there existed a multitudeof thrifty villages, and a numerous population ofhardy, industrious, and brave mountaineers. But onreversing the view, and looking down the westernslope from the brow of one of the projecting bluffs,a totally different, and highly picturesque scene ispresented to view. The small areas at the tops ofthe terraces are green and golden-hued with vines,corn, and the foliage of the mulberry. The steeperbanks and tops of ridges have their forests of pineand oak; while far away down in the glens, aroundthe villages and convents, are groves of extends only to the hight of about 6,000feet; above that line the mountains are nearly desti-tute of -1^ \Wk RIVERS. The southern end of Ccele-Syria is divided by alow ridge into two branches. Down the easternbranch runs the Wady el-Teim, a tributary of theJordan, and down the western flows the Litany. Thelatter branch soon contracts into a deep wild chasm,whose banks are in some places over a thousandfeet high, of naked rocks, and nearly one spot this ravine is only 60 feet wide, and is
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