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v enient from the quantity of loofe fand which covers 
them : the handfome plain, which readies as far as 
Hama, begins at a fmall diftance from the town, 
near which are fome pleafant gardens after the 
Planner of the country, where in particular I found 
fome Fig-trees, as beautiful as any I had feen in the 
Levant. Here were likewife feveral Sycamores, 
which are fcarcer as you advance in the country. 
Lhe hedges were overgrown with different kinds of 
Lrickly plants, in which the wild beafts had their 
Paffages and habitations, particularly the little 
Laftern Fox Jackal, who is to be found in large 
*Uimbers in this neighbourhood. 
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