The book The Land of Gilead With Excursions in the Lebanon was written by author Oliphant, Laurence, 1829-1888 Here you can read free online of The Land of Gilead With Excursions in the Lebanon book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Land of Gilead With Excursions in the Lebanon a good or bad book?
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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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