The Jordan and the Rhine; Or, the East and the West. Being the Result of Five Years' Residence in Syria, and Five Years' Residence in Germany (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LEBANON. 23 CHAPTER II. LEBANON. I. Illustrations of Scripture: ?1st. General Observations; 2nd. The House of the Forest of Lebanon; 3rd. The Cedars of Lebanon; 4th. The Sides of Lebanon; 5th. The Roots of Lebanon; Cth. The Violence of Lebanon; 7th. The Glory of Lebanon; 8th. "The Skin of the Teeth" illustrated. II. The Inhabitants of Lebanon: ?First, The Maronites; Second, The Greeks. The Two Parties compared; 1st, As to Literature; 2nd. As to Secular Employments; 3rd. As to Preparatory Training; 4th. As to Character in general. Monastic Institutions considered; 1st. As to unnatural Crimes; 2nd. As to Piety and Charity; 3rd. In Reference to Civilisation. III. The Druses of Mount Lebanon particularly described. IV. Various particulars: 1st. The Roads; 2nd. The Terraces; 3rd. The Animals; 4th. The Villages and Houses. I. Illustrations of Scripture. 1st. We have now passed the land of the Pharaohs, touched at the city of Alexander, surveyed Pompey's pillar and Cleopatra's needle, examined the docks of Mehemet Ali, the second historic man of the age (Wellington being the first), got a sight of the famous dogs, donkeys, and donkey-boys of Egypt, and here we are upon this beautiful sea, the great sea, nJil D'H of the Hebrews, the most celebrated in the world, around whose shores have been clustered the great monarchies and republics of antiquity. If the genius of the Mediterranean had a voice, what a tale it could bring us from the hoary deep. How peaceful are these waters! " There shrinks no ebb in this tideless sea, That ceaseless rolls eternally." 24 LEBANON. Be done with your sea-sickness, my brother. The morning breaks forth in oriental splendour. Tyre and Sidon are far behind us, and Lebanon rises before us baptised in the radiance of the morning sun. How lo...