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Updated: June 28, 2025
Palmer and Drake. 11th July 1870. The Burtons spent their summer in a diminutive Christian village called B'ludan, on the Anti-Lebanon, at the head of the Vale of Zebedani, Burton having chosen it as his sanitarium. A beautiful stream with waterfalls bubbled through their gardens, which commanded magnificent views of the Lebanon country. As at Santos, Mrs.
Comparisons with the environs of Naples or Florence visited in an automobile, or with the suburbs of Boston seen from a trolley-car, are futile and unilluminating. The point about the Baradâ is that it springs full-born from the barren sides of the Anti-Lebanon, swiftly creates a paradise as it runs, and then disappears absolutely in a wide marsh on the edge of the desert.
At last we stood upon a mountain-range of crescent form, ourselves in the centre, and the two cusps to the sea. Turning to the side which we had ascended and looking below, the horizon was bounded by the Anti-Lebanon, with the plain of Buka'a and the ruins of Ba'albak beneath and far away.
Pictures of Damascus. Damascus from the Anti-Lebanon Entering the City A Diorama of Bazaars An Oriental Hotel Our Chamber The Bazaars Pipes and Coffee The Rivers of Damascus Palaces of the Jews Jewish Ladies A Christian Gentleman The Sacred Localities Damascus Blades The Sword of Haroun Al-Raschid An Arrival from Palmyra.
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