The Ansayrii And the Assassins With Travels in the Further East in 1850 51 in
The Ansayrii And the Assassins With Travels in the Further East in 1850 51 in
F Frederick Walpole
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THE CASTLE OF AINTAB. 259 I visited the castle, like those of Aleppo and Horns, built on a hill just without the town, the face of which is reveted with masonry. Within are nothing but the ruins of modern erections, the body of a Moslem sheik, and four hundred barrels of powder. The stone, the same as that used in the construction of Aleppo and Horns, will not stand the severity of the climate, and crumbles away, split by the frost, or washed away by the rain. From the walls a fine view of the ...town is obtained. Like Aleppo, it is built in a hollow ; the sides of the surrounding rocks are fall of tombs, and the bare land is well peopled with the dead. The tombs, cut in the solid rock, seem old ; on many I saw our sacred emblem, the cross, deeply cut : I counted thirty -six minarets. The population is computed at 45, 000, but this, I should think, is exaggerated. Till within the last two years it was governed by an hereditary chief, but he was recalled ; the Porte having gradually removed them all, preferring to cen- tralise the government.
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