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crossing Lebanon and Hermon by the admirable French road to 

 Damascus, visiting Baalbeck on the way. As I am not writing a volume 

 of travels I will bring this part of my subject to a close. The snow lay 

 many feet deep on these mountains reaching to Damascus and Baalbeck, 

 so that I was unable to make any collections or observations of con- 

 sequence on the natural history of this country, which is, moreover, fairly 

 well made known by the researches of several eminent naturalists. 



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