The old world : Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor : travel, incident, description and history . sit with them, puttingthe best morsels before it; and they talk with him as ifhe was living by their side. Beyrout seen thus from a distance, with quaint housesand green trees dotting the landscape, and the long lineof macadamized road twisting and turning down themountain side, and then running in a straight line throughthe valley toward the city, is exceedingly picturesque andbeautiful. And then the sea, deeply, darkly, beautifully blue—? how it seems to woo us to its embrace—and how the very29* 34
The old world : Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor : travel, incident, description and history . sit with them, puttingthe best morsels before it; and they talk with him as ifhe was living by their side. Beyrout seen thus from a distance, with quaint housesand green trees dotting the landscape, and the long lineof macadamized road twisting and turning down themountain side, and then running in a straight line throughthe valley toward the city, is exceedingly picturesque andbeautiful. And then the sea, deeply, darkly, beautifully blue—? how it seems to woo us to its embrace—and how the very29* 344 The Old World—Palestine. winds which come from oft it seem to whisper of homeand friends ! For weeks we have been without letters,without newspapers, without a word of any kind fromour own native land, and we feel that it will be like be-gining life anew to get once more among a civilizedpeople. So soon as we have passed the last descent, and stoppedfor a few moments to lunch, in a fig tree orchard by theroad side, we hasten onward and at about two P. the city of r<^fei ^iif?^ WSm CHAPTER XVIII. BEYROUT. BEYROUT is the point at which nearly all travelersclose their pilgrimage through Palestine ; and yet,for many reasons, it is the very point from which it shouldbe commenced. t In commencing at Jaffa and coming northward, yousee the worst parts of Palestine first, and the mind isshocked at what seems an irreconcilable difference be-tween the biblical description of this land and its actualcondition. Instead of a fair land—a land of water-courses and springs bursting out from the rocks,—a land of olives, and pomegranates, and fig trees,—a land flowing with milk and honey, you only see mountainsof rock and valleys of barrenness, dry beds of brooksand wells without water. The very rocks of the pathsover which you travel seem so old, and gray, and worm-eaten—without moss, or tree, or shrub to relieve theirhideousness—that you instinctively shri
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