. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... ile leadingto a plain below. Passing over sections of an old Roman road,we came to the village of Nakilrah, and to the east of it, highup in the mountain ravines, was a company of French soldiersexcavating a buried city which has neither name nor had succeeded in uncovering one temple and a numberof elegant sarcophagi, but no inscriptions had been discoveredby which to ascer
. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... ile leadingto a plain below. Passing over sections of an old Roman road,we came to the village of Nakilrah, and to the east of it, highup in the mountain ravines, was a company of French soldiersexcavating a buried city which has neither name nor had succeeded in uncovering one temple and a numberof elegant sarcophagi, but no inscriptions had been discoveredby which to ascertain the origin of the unknown town. Twomiles to the north we came to the white cliffs of Ras el-Abyad,or t\\Q Promontorhmi Alhimi of the ancients. This is one ofthe wildest, and, at times, the most dangerous passes on thePhoenician coast. The sides of the bluff are perpendicular, andthe Avaves dash wildly against its base. The path is cut in thewhite limestone rocks 500 feet above the level of the sea, andin places it skirts the very verge of the precipice. Huge boul-ders have fallen from the cliffs above, and others seem readyto follow. Excited by the grandeur of the scene and the dan-1 , T
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