. Christian herald and signs of our times . AND SIGNS OF ;me i9- STMBER 27. T. DE WITT TALM AGE. D. D. Editor.,ces:—Bible House. New York City. NEW YORK. JL LV 1. 1S96. Price Five Cents. LEBANON is theSyrian Switzer-5 J land. Its wide,double range ofsnow-clad moun-tains, its deep,gloomy gorges,its rushing riv-ers, half hiddenamong sheerrocks, fromwhose cleft; thev emerge to plunge madly down,jiterfall and cataract, to still lowerj, present a succession of scenes ofilled picturesqueness. Nowhere else|ia, and, indeed, in few places through-ke world, is such natural grandeur tobnd. Travelers unit
. Christian herald and signs of our times . AND SIGNS OF ;me i9- STMBER 27. T. DE WITT TALM AGE. D. D. Editor.,ces:—Bible House. New York City. NEW YORK. JL LV 1. 1S96. Price Five Cents. LEBANON is theSyrian Switzer-5 J land. Its wide,double range ofsnow-clad moun-tains, its deep,gloomy gorges,its rushing riv-ers, half hiddenamong sheerrocks, fromwhose cleft; thev emerge to plunge madly down,jiterfall and cataract, to still lowerj, present a succession of scenes ofilled picturesqueness. Nowhere else|ia, and, indeed, in few places through-ke world, is such natural grandeur tobnd. Travelers unite in declaring thatSon combines much of the peculiarfy of the Alps with the sterner splen-j»f the highest and(celebrated[tain sor-. * * * THE RIVERS OF LEBANON. * * * A Region of Grand and Awful Scenery— The Litany and the Bukah Valley,through which it Flows. shed near ancient Baalbec. at an elevationof feet, being separated only a mileat their sources. One of the rivers is theNahr el-Asv (the ancient Orontes), flow-ing north, and the other is the Litany (.theancient Leontes), which forms the naturaldivision of Syria and Palestine. It runssouthwest of Hermon and after passingthrough a deep gorge, turns westward toreach the sea, north of Tyre. In thelower part of its course, it has scooped outof the rock a deep and narrow channel foritself—doubtless a work of many centu- the Gissar il-Karddy—spans it at a bendof the stream where the scenery is peculiar-ly beautiful. This is the spot shown inour photographic illustration on this the greater part of its course, theLitany flows west, through the romanticvalley of Bukah, (the plain of Coele Sy-ria), at an elevation of 1500 feet, until itreaches
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