Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . banon, we caught sight of a long line oftrees, marking the course of a stream towards the centre of the valley, and(as it seemed) a castle rising above them, with a lofty tower, which resolveditself as we drew nearer into six stately columns: this was Baalbec. The grand ruins of Baalbec stand at the western extremity of the town,and just within the modern walls. There are an assemblage of three ordersof buildings, evidently belonging to as many distinct eras; namely, 1s
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . banon, we caught sight of a long line oftrees, marking the course of a stream towards the centre of the valley, and(as it seemed) a castle rising above them, with a lofty tower, which resolveditself as we drew nearer into six stately columns: this was Baalbec. The grand ruins of Baalbec stand at the western extremity of the town,and just within the modern walls. There are an assemblage of three ordersof buildings, evidently belonging to as many distinct eras; namely, 1st,Stupendous walls and platforms, built with hewn stones of enormous bulk,and traversed by vaulted passages in several directions : 2ndly, Two verylarge Roman temples, of the age of Antoninus Pius, surmounting the plat-forms : 3rdly, The Saracenic walls and towers incorporated with the originalbuildings, when the place was converted into a fortress. These more recentadditions, though oddly built up with fragments of cornices, architraves, andpillars, are massive and imposing structures, and would claim respect, did they. General view of Baaibec. not contrast so incongruously with the more venerable relics which theyencumber and obscure. 258 SYRIA AND THE HOLY LAND. The main walls of the temples and of their enclosures correspond to the
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