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Evening Readings in History. Repr

Evening Readings in History. Repr

Sigourney, Lydia Howard

Paperback

General World History

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ISBN10: 1151314765
ISBN13: 9781151314765
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834. Excerpt: ... of luxury, where the Turks recline, eating, sleeping, smoking, receiving visits, or repeating their prayers. They entertain an opinion that the native Damascenes are the most restless and troublesome subjects of their empire; and the Arabs have a proverb, shami shoumi, signifying-- the man of Damascus wicked! Numbers of Christians inhabit Damascus, and are hated and oppressed by the insolent Mahometans. Mode of Sitting in the East. Among the most celebrated cities of Syria, was Palmyra, which, now in ruins, calls forth the admiration and wonder of the traveller. It is supposed to have been originally built by Solomon, and called Tadmor in the Desert, as it is situated in a wilderness of Syria, about 117 miles from the Mediterranean. Its magnificent ruins seem to bear different dates; some are so far decayed as scarcely to admit of being measured, and others appear to have been strewn in fragments rather by the hand of violence, than of time. Among these, the most remarkable is the Temple of the Sun, encompassed with a stately wall, adorned with pilasters, containing within its court, two rows of very noble marble pillars, 37 feet high, and surrounded by another row of pillars, 50 feet in height. In the neighbourhood of this lofty temple, the wretched inhabitants, amounting to 30 or 40 families, have reared their mud cottages; and surrounded by broken obelisks, tottering columns, shattered pedestals, and dilapidated walls of porphyry and marble, they strike the eye of the mind with stronger sadness, as the ruins of men. Balbec was formerly celebrated under the name of Heliopolis, and is pleasantly situated at the base of the lofty mountain of Anti-Libanus, and abounds with gardens, plentifully watered by the Letanea and Barbouni. As you approach the c...

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