The Land of Gilead With Excursions in the Lebanon
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In the first journey which I under- A ROAD IN THE LEBANON. 343 took in the Lebanon these inconveniences were, however, reduced to a minimum, and I was fortu- nate in visiting one of its most interesting and beau- tiful districts under auspices exceptionally favourable. One of the most powerful and well known of the Druse chiefs invited me to pay him a visit ; and as he was about to entertain Mr Eldridge, H. M. 's Consul-General for Syria, the latter was so good as to propose that I should form ...one of his party an offer which I thankfully accepted. It was on a hot April afternoon, two days after my arrival from Sidon, that we left Beyrout by the Damascus road in two carriages, traversing for a couple of hours the productive and beauti- ful gardens which surround the city, until we came to the spot where further progress in wheeled ve- hicles became impossible, and we found our horses waiting to carry us up the steep mountain -path which led to our night -quarters. We wound up- wards through groves of olives and mulberries, through gardens where peaches and apricots were in full bloom, where the fig-trees gave promise of a luscious harvest, where the whole atmosphere was redolent of the delicious odours of orange and lemon trees white with blossom ; along terraces where grain crops were waving, and the dark green of scattered pine-trees contrasted with the brighter foliage ; across sparkling rills of purest water gushing from the hill- sides, where women were filling their water -jars 344 THE LAND OF GILEAD.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In the first journey which I under- A ROAD IN THE LEBANON. 343 took in the Lebanon these inconveniences were, however, reduced to a minimum, and I was fortu- nate in visiting one of its most interesting and beau- tiful districts under auspices exceptionally favourable. One of the most powerful and well known of the Druse chiefs invited me to pay him a visit ; and as he was about to entertain Mr Eldridge, H. M. 's Consul-General for Syria, the latter was so good as to propose that I should form ...one of his party an offer which I thankfully accepted. It was on a hot April afternoon, two days after my arrival from Sidon, that we left Beyrout by the Damascus road in two carriages, traversing for a couple of hours the productive and beauti- ful gardens which surround the city, until we came to the spot where further progress in wheeled ve- hicles became impossible, and we found our horses waiting to carry us up the steep mountain -path which led to our night -quarters. We wound up- wards through groves of olives and mulberries, through gardens where peaches and apricots were in full bloom, where the fig-trees gave promise of a luscious harvest, where the whole atmosphere was redolent of the delicious odours of orange and lemon trees white with blossom ; along terraces where grain crops were waving, and the dark green of scattered pine-trees contrasted with the brighter foliage ; across sparkling rills of purest water gushing from the hill- sides, where women were filling their water -jars 344 THE LAND OF GILEAD.
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