File:A dictionary of the Bible.. (1887) (14801613233).jpg

Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
Subjects:
Publisher: (n. p.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Mediterranean, andruns for a distance of 90 geographicalmiles, in the direction from north-eastto south-west, parallel with the Med-iterranean, to the banks of the Litany,the ancient Leontes, which, drainingCcelo-Syria and breaking through theLebanon by a wild gorge, enters theMediterranean a few miles north ofTyre. The average height of this rangeisfrom 6000 to 8000 feet. Its highestpeaks are Jebel Mukhmel, 10,200 feet,and Sannin, 9000 feet. The line of cul-tivation runs at an elevation of about6000 feet. The peaks which pass be-yond this line are generally barren andcovered with small fragments of lime-stone, through which the naked rocksjut up in jagged points. The highestof them, however, are covered with per-petual snow and ice, towering aloft intheir glittering magnificence, visible faroff by sea and by land, and sendingforth streams of cooled air over thescorched plains of Sjria and Palestine.The eastern descent toward Coelo-Syriais steep, wild, often forbidding; but to LEB LEB
Text Appearing After Image:
View of Lebanon from the Sea. the west the Lebanon descends gradually-through broad terraces to the Mediter-ranean, generally facing the sea withranges of bold limestone cliffs. Every-where broken by the sudden rise ofhigh peaks of rook or rent by deepprecipices and ravines, these terracespresent a most romantic prospect, andthe beauty of the country is still moreenhanced by the salubrity of the airand the fertility of the soil; by the lux-uriant vegetation which covers all forms;pine, oak, and Cedar (which see) on thepeaks; mulberry and orange trees, figs,vines, corn, and melons on the slopes;olive and cotton trees in the valleys,besides a multitude of fragrant herbsand gorgeous flowers. The smell ofthy garments is like the smell of Leb-anon. Cant. 4 : 11. The eastern chain,the Anti-Lebanon, runs nearly parallelwith the western from the plain ofEmesa until, in the south, it connectswith the hills of Galilee. Its highestpoint is Mount Hermon (which see).Its western descent toward Ccel

Note About Images