The Cedars on Atlas Moimtuiua. 



CHAPTER VI. 



CEDARS OF LEBANON AND OF AFEICA. 



traveller who ascends the ancient mountains of 

 Lebanon is overcome with awe when, having ar- 

 rived at the lofty plateaux that crown them, he sees 

 that the heavens are still shut out from his gaze by 

 the green veil stretched above his head by the broad 

 branches of the cedars. Calm and silent witnesses of 

 revolutions that have altered the face of the world, 

 they have beheld unmoved the terrors of man in the 

 fearful days when the waters covered the earth. The 

 strong men of the early ages of the world reposed un- 

 der their shade, tribes set up their tents there, and patri- 

 archal families rested there in their wanderings. As we 



