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Title: Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm) Socin, A. (Albert), 1844-1899 Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935 Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921
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Publisher: Leipzig : Karl Baedeker London : T. Fisher Unwin New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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our right, andpass quantities of the liquorice plant (Glycyrrhiza glabra). After1 hr. 40 min. we turn into a broad valley more towards the S., andpass some wells. On the left (1/2 t^r.) a small valley opens, and onthe right are an aqueduct and a group of houses called Jilija. Wepass (23 min.) a well on the left, and (20 min.) two villages on theright, and reach (10 min.) the beginning of the orchards. On theleft (7 min.) are rock-tombs, and on the hill above us rise the wallsof ancient Antioch. In 10 min. we pass the site of the Bab Bulus,or E. gate (p. 391), and in 1/4 hr. more observe numerous tombson the left. In 13 min. more we reach Antioch. Antioch.. — Accommodation may be obtaiaed at tte houses of theconsular agents (introduction necessary), or in a small and dirty hotel inthe N.W. part of the town. Visitors have to bring their own bedding. —Tdekish Post & International Telegeaph Station. Consulates. French and German consular agents. ParsiciAN. J)r. Glyptis (a Greek).
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History. ANTIOCH. 47. Route. 387 Photographs are best obtained from Clement TMvenet at Aleppo, thouglihere is also a photographer in Antioch. Antiquities. Large numbers of gems and coins are brought to light)y the heavy showers of rain which wash down the soil from the hills.Some of these are admirable specimens of the die-sinkers art, but for-;eries are not uncommon. Careful bargaining is always necessary. Antioch (Arab. Antdkiyeh) lies in tlie l)eautiful and extremelyertile plain of the flower Orontes, on tlie left bank of tte streamnow called El-Asi), wMcli is here crossed by a bridge of fourirches. The town nestles picturesquely among the green orchardsit the S. base of the rugged Mt. Silpius (Arab. Habib en-Nejjdr;L445 ft.). The peaks of this range of hills (the Mans Casius ofmtiquity), anciently called Silpius, Orocassias, and Staurin, areseparated from each other by valleys which rarely contain water,rhe modern town, occupying scarcely one-tenth part (to the N.W.))f its ancient

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