husbeiya

Updated: July 15, 2025

Though there is a "divide," or watershed, between Husbeiya, at the foot of Mount Hermon, and Baalbec, whose springs join the Orontes, which flows northward to Antioch, the great natural separation of the two chains continues unbroken to the Gulf of Akaba, in the Red Sea.

Bayard Taylor - The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain