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Volume X 



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ecember, 



1913 



Number 1 2 



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CEDARS^OF LEBANON 1 ^-*! 



A ' ir-r -> BY RALPH JOHNS' - ^ ^.,. &f 



Photographs by American Colony and T. C. Turner 





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HE Cedars of Lebanon have always occu- 

 pied a position of honor in the estimation 

 of man, doubtless because of their connec- 

 tion with the temple built by Solomon, and 

 the various allusions to them in scriptural 

 writings. Situated among the mountains in 

 northern Syria, these historic trees are decidedly off the 



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beaten track of tourists, and for that reason are only occa- 

 sionally visited. It is an excursion, too, that demands an 

 amount of exertion that discourages the average traveler, for 

 it can only be undertaken on horseback, while the rider must 

 be prepared to spend one or two nights under canvas. More- 

 over, the journey is one that could hardly be undertaken in 

 Winter, because of the snowdrifts upon the hillsides of the 



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The faint spot of dark grey half-way up the distant mountains to the right indicates the location of the famous Cedars of Lebanon 



