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Besides being their spiritual, I am also common men, or of a race of beings 



tlieir temporal, phj^sician, and lend gra- superior to our own. 

 tuifously my remedies wherever they Re-aseeudingmount Libanus I wished 



are necessary. The other prelates live to stnell its Iwasfed cedars, see Eden, 



more secure under cover of the moun- the grottos of Canohin. and the horri- 



tains, but I am more fortunate than ble cave of the great Egyptian hermit, 



they are, who divide with my flock the Oh, how the pure and sweet life of the 



daysof sorrow and of joy.'' May those patriarchs flourishes here ! Here is that 



be blessed who speak and reason with sim])licity and peace that man in vain 



so much truth. seeks amongst mankind. 



Leaving Tyre with the benedictions Aeain returning to Phoenicia I went 

 and sincere embraces of my host, I to Tripoli, to Tortosa, witness of the 

 passed the Well of Living Waters, the great congress in the first crusade ; to 

 Pseudo Eleutherius, and Saropta, when Eleutherius, Sober; to the city of Ga- 

 the smiling plain of thtit Sidon opened bale, which preserves one of its amphi- 

 itself before me which struggled hard theatres; to Laodicea, where tlieSignor 

 with its appioachiug fall. Monsieur Agostino Lazzari entertained me with 

 Ruffiu, French Consul, politely offered more than social treatment : and pene- 

 rae reception, and I deplore the loss he trating amongst the mountains of the 

 has since sustained in a companion who Arsarites, worshippers of dogs and of 

 was tlie model of the tender sex. the base senses, I arrived at the Milky 

 TheLady Esther Stanhope, who, for Waters of Orontes and at Antioch, an 

 60 many years, has affracted the atten- object worthy of contest. 

 tion of Asia and of Europe by the shi- From Theopolis. by a road covered 

 gular manner of life she has adopted, with abusive inhabitants, I came to the 

 is encamped one hour's distance from more flourishing Aleppo, thence to the 

 Sidon, in a small habitation called Euphrates, and hardly toucliing Meso- 

 Ceruba; and, in order to render herself polamia, the sound of Nineveh and 

 still more remarkable, insists upon her liabylon already struck my fancy, and 

 will being obeyed, that no European drew it away more rapidly than the 

 shall approach her, even for a moment, steed of Elimaides, the chariot of Cyrus. 

 To blame her for it, would it not be an Passing again through Aleppo, I kept 

 act of intolerance ? t he other "road of Damascus by Apameu, 

 Traversing that mountain which in- Cima, and Emesa, where the delicate- 

 eludes so many mountains, and may ly fair-haired, white-cemplexioned 

 properly be called a kingdom, and nymphs, display themselves, with their 

 which I shall call Libania, I hastened black eyes, more beautiful than were 

 forward to Cilicia, and thence to Damas- ever produced by the native of Ur- 

 cns, the name of which imposes more bino or by Titian. 

 than is due to it. Whilst I was eujoying the presence 

 In all the circuit of Libauus, as well of Emesa, the catastrophe of the Pal- 

 as in Carmel, I collected a thousand myrenes came to my memory and the 

 fruits and petrified testaceous substau- blood of the acute Longinus almost 

 ces, the proof of a tremendous deluge, drew from me a tear. 



My intention of going from Damas- Warmly recommended to the gover- 



cus to Falmyra not succeeding .at that nor of Damascus by the excellent Pici- 



time, I came to Balbeck, wheie it ap- otto, consul-general of Austria in Alep- 



peared to me as if Thebes were revived po, a son worthy of his father, I ad- 



in flic midst of Syria. vanced towards Palmyra, in company 



An entire volume would be insuffi- with a single guide, and, after five days 



eient for the description of the Temple of a most troublesome journey, reposed 

 of the Sun. in the court of Odenatus and Zenobia. 



Six columns arise amidst the marshes. But what can I tell you of this me- 

 each in height seventy-one feet, and morable spot which so much electrifies 

 <wenty-one feet eight inches circumfer- the intellects, unless that about thirty 

 ence. Three stones of granite occupy towers, the Temple of the Sun, and 

 the space of one hundred and seventy- three hundred column scattered here 

 five feet and a half, and another has and there, over a soil covered with sand, 

 sixty-nine feet of length, twelve of are still standing to eternize to the 

 breath, and thirteen of thickness, world the great Palmyra? What I pass 

 You alone. Sublime Genius! can solve over in silence shall blossom in my 

 the problem whether it is the work of future little vtork. 



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