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Title: Unexplored Syria : visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl el Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the northern Libanus, and the Aláh
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890 Drake, Charles F. Tyrwhitt, 1846-1874
Subjects: Ethnology
Publisher: London : Tinsley Brothers
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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in fact the dis-trict of rolling hills situated as above mentioned, and forms a most markedfeature in the physical geography of the country. It is not, however, so faras I am aware, shown on any map otherwise than as a series of spurs orshoulders running down from the main range, which in reality it is not. It is very important that these natural features should be well understoodand carefully borne in mind, as most important in helping to clear up theobscurity in which the geography of the Old Testament is now enveloped.These distinctions of mountain, hill, and plain are more than once mentionedin the Talmud (cf. tract Shevith, &c). Rabbi Jochanan says that fromBeth-horon to Emmaus is mountain (in); from Emmaus to Lydda, hill (rrjoiD), andfrom Lydda to the sea, plain (pas); which is perfectly correct, as Amwas issituated at the base of a spur from the mountains, and the hills extend towithin a very short distance of Lidd, beyond which is the plain. Hui-t oils Lnoxoltn.-J Svi-i;i
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Tiimlev Brothev-J Ionian 1872, UNEXPLORED SYRIA. GENERAL REMARKS. My eyes were still full of the might and majesty ofthe Chilian Andes, and of the grace and grandeurof Magellans Straits-—memories which fashionableVichy and foul Brindisi had strengthened, not ef-faced—as I landed upon the Syrian shore on Friday,October 1, 1869.1 The points of resemblanceand of difference between the South Pacific coastand Mediterranean Palestine at once struck myglance. Both are disposed nearly upon a meridian;mere strips of flat seaboard, mostly narrow, rarelywidening, bounded by two parallel Cordilleras, flank-ing waterless deserts on the far eastern lee-land: the 1 My last appointment had been at Santos, Sao Paulo, the Brazil.YOL. I. B UNEXPLORED SYRIA. northernmost are notably the highest blocks of moun-tain ; and the low-lying southern extremities, in Asiaas in America, are ever rising by secular up-growth;whilst either shores, Pacific and Mediterranean, aresubject to remarkable oscillations o

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