The Ansayrii, (Or Assassins,) : With Travels in the Further East, in 1850-51, Including a Visit to Nineveh
The Ansayrii, (Or Assassins,) : With Travels in the Further East, in 1850-51, Including a Visit to Nineveh
F Frederick Walpole
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At length, a mound broke the roundness of the horizon, and we came upon a village built on it. The mud houses had dome- shaped roofs, a form seemingly better adapted for a country subject to rain, than the flat roofs universal in Syria. They looked like enormous native ovens. The village is called Tel Bissfe, and is about nine miles N.N.B. from Homs. On again over uncultivated verdure ; in one hour and ten minutes we reached Rastan, the ancient n2 Digitized by VjOOQIC 180 THE MODEBN VILLAGE OP ...RASTAN. Arethusia. The ruins are extensive, built of black ferruginous stone. They occupy a long hill on the right bank of the Orontes, which flows in a deep channel far beneath : the northernmost part is occupied by the village. All is perfectly ruined. We noticed one spring of an arch composed of alternate layers of black and white stone — Saracenic, and comparatively modem, and some remnants of walls built of huge blocks uncemented. The rows of pedestals form a iroad way for some distance till lost in the village.
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