Syria, the land of Lebanon

by Lewis Gaston Leary

Lewis Gaston Leary

Pelham Manor, N. Y., October 15, 1913.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	The White Mountain	[1]
II	The Left-Hand Land	[6]
III	The City of Saturn	[26]
IV	The Spirit of Olympia	[44]
V	Across the Mountains	[60]
VI	The Land of Uz	[72]
VII	The Earthly Paradise	[88]
VIII	The Port of the Wilderness	[95]
IX	The Riches of Damascus	[110]
X	The Desert Capital	[128]
XI	Some Salt People	[144]
XII	The Cedars of the Lord	[163]
XIII	The Giant Stones of Baalbek	[184]
XIV	Hamath the Great	[201]

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

Evening in the harbor of Beirut	[Frontispiece]
	FACING PAGE
Along the coast north of Beirut	[4]
Looking up the western slopes of Lebanon	[5]
Lebanon soldiers	[16]
Village of Deir el-Kamr	[17]
Bay of Beirut and Mount Sunnin	[26]
Pine groves of Beirut	[27]
Bridge over the Dog River	[36]
Procession in Beirut	[38]
Students of the American College	[48]
Cape of Beirut viewed from Lebanon	[49]
Old Bridge over the Barada River	[70]
Cascade in the Yarmuk Valley	[71]
A caravan	[82]
Damascus—a distant view	[83]
Damascus—one of the more modern avenues	[100]
A Syrian café	[101]
Damascus—court of a private residence	[112]
Damascus—Moslem cemetery	[113]
Damascus—The Street called Straight	[120]
Damascus—The Omayyade Mosque	[121]
Palmyra—General view of the ruins	[134]
Palmyra—the Triple Gate	[135]
Funeral procession of the patriarch	[160]
A summer camp in Lebanon	[161]
The Cedar Mountain	[170]
Source of the Kadisha River	[171]
The oldest Cedar of Lebanon	[182]
Baalbek—the six great columns	[183]
Baalbek—the stone in the quarry	[198]
Hama—the Orontes River	[199]
Maps and Plans
The railway from Beirut to Damascus	[62]
Cross-section of Syria	[64]
The Hauran	[74]
The temples of Baalbek	[194]

SYRIA
THE LAND
OF
LEBANON

Syria, The Land of Lebanon

CHAPTER I
THE WHITE MOUNTAIN