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Wolves, hyaenas, and jackals are comparatively common. They haunt not only Carmel and Lebanon, but many portions of the coast tract. Canon Tristram obtained from Carmel "the two largest hyaenas that he had ever seen," and fell in with jackals in the vicinity. Wolves seem to be more scarce, though anciently very plentiful.
He had tried to grow cedars there at first, but the soil of Besztercebánya was not suitable for these trees, and the sarcastic inhabitants of the small town christened the orchard "Lebanon." Mr. Sztolarik showed no surprise at the offer. "So you want to buy 'Lebanon'?" he said. "It is a good orchard, and produces the finest fruit imaginable.
Stuart, I. W. <i>Life of Jonathan Trumbull./i> Crocker & firewater. Boston, 1859. 2. <i>The Lebanon War Office./i> Published by the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the Revolution. Hartford, 1891. Lodge, Henry Cabot. "Address at the Unveiling of the Statue of the Count de Rochambeau," in <i>A Fighting Frigate and other Essays./i> D. Appleton & Co. New York, 1902.
The tract appears to have been that where the modern Kabul now stands, which is a rocky and bare highland, part of the outlying roots of Lebanon overlooking the rich plain of Akka or Accho, and presenting a striking contrast to its fertility. Hiram, on the completion of the cession, "came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him," and was disappointed with the gift.
Bardstown, Kentucky.-Tenth Indiana, Colonel Manson. Crab Orchard.-Thirty-third Indiana, Colonel Coburn. Jeffersonville, Indiana.-Thirty-fourth Indiana, Colonel Steele; Thirty-sixth Indiana, Colonel Gross; First Wisconsin, Colonel Starkweather. Mouth of Salt River.-Ninth Michigan, Colonel Duffield; Thirty-seventh Indiana, Colonel Hazzard. Lebanon Junction..-Second Minnesota, Colonel Van Cleve.
The courtesy shown to ladies in aiding them to alight, in a shower, under umbrellas. The dull looks of passengers, who have driven all night, scarcely brightened by the excitement of arriving at a new place. The stage agent demanding the names of those who are going on, some to Lebanon Springs, some to Albany. The toddy-stick is still busy at these Berkshire public-houses.
At that season the red earth washed down from the mountains by the rain tinges the water of the river, and even the sea, for a great way with a blood-red hue, and the crimson stain was believed to be the blood of Adonis, annually wounded to death by the boar on Mount Lebanon.
More striking than even Lebanon at its lower extremity, where Hermon lifts a snowy peak into the air during most of the year, it is on the whole inferior in beauty to the coast range, being bleaker, more stony, and less broken up by dells and valleys towards the south, and tamer, barer, and less well supplied with streams in its more northern portion.
He is not enough of a mechanic to reflect that the eight horse-power is demonstrated in the carrying of a ton over average roads one hundred and fifty miles in ten hours, something eight horses could not possibly do. Just as we were entering the valley of Lebanon, beyond the village of Brainerd, while going down a slight descent, my Companion exclaimed, "The wheel is coming off."
So the biographer adds: "He spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall." Four centuries later, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego anticipated Emerson's advice about eating bread and pulse at rich men's tables. The historian tells us that they were men skilful in all wisdom, cunning in knowledge, and understanding science.
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