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FOOTNOTES:
[1] A few years afterwards she became more of a fatalist. See “Memoirs of Lady Hester Stanhope.”
[2] These trays are made in continuous circles, like the top of a beehive, and are very common in Syria.
[3] There are said to be about forty-four villages in the Bkâ.
[4] These had a resident Frank priest, who acted also as doctor. He was well known as having received all the European travellers, who have passed through Bâlbec, at his little monastery.
[5] The word Shiys or Shyas marks either the particular followers of Ali, who do not acknowledge the legitimacy of the first three Caliphs, or comprehends, generally, all heterodox persons, born in the bosom of Islamism, in opposition to the Sunnys, an expression by which all Moslems of the four orthodox sects are designated.—(Tabl. Gen. de l’Emp. Ott. vol. i. p. 95.)
[6] The largest of the stones in the outer (western) wall is said to be 62 feet 9 inches, that in the quarry 68 feet in length, 17 feet 8 inches wide, 13 feet 10 inches thick. Wood and Dawkins, who aver that they give all their drawings and plans from measurement, are the best authors to rely on.
[7] Of this emir Ali, Burckhardt has these words (p. 168):—“the north declivity of Mount Libanus, a district governed at present (March, 1812,) by Ali Beg, a man famous for his generosity, liberality, and knowledge of Arabian literature.”