This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ... these limits, and about 11 miles S.W. of Aleppo, are the ruins of a castle, and near it a circular basin of about 150 feet in diameter and upwards of 70 feet deep, with grottoes excavated in its sides. It is known by the name of Sunk village, the sunk village; and although probably the crater of an extinct volcano, it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ... these limits, and about 11 miles S.W. of Aleppo, are the ruins of a castle, and near it a circular basin of about 150 feet in diameter and upwards of 70 feet deep, with grottoes excavated in its sides. It is known by the name of Sunk village, the sunk village; and although probably the crater of an extinct volcano, it has quite the appearance of being artificial. Fourteen miles farther in the same direction is the village of Dana, at which are the grottoes, cisterns, sarcophagi, and other remains of the ancient city of that name. Again, 13 hours S.W. by W. from Aleppo is the town of Sermein, which is remarkable for the great number of its cisterns and wells, and for the troglodyte habitations of the poorer peasants.5 Nearly 10 miles N.W. by W. from thence stands the picturesque town of Edlip with many similar excavations, and also, several Christian remains;6 and eight miles south by west of 1 Rhosus, built near a river at the foot of Ras-el-Khanzir.--Jaubert's Edrisi, tome VI., p. 132.--Recueil de Voyages. MS. Journal of Mr. Fitzjames, R.N. See the Boundaries of the Promised Land, &c, by the Rev. Dr. Keith, pp. 92 to 144. 4 Burckhardt's Travels in Syria, p. 132. Ibid., pp. 121, 122. 'Ibid., p. 122; and Mr. Ainsworth's MS. Journal. the latter place is Reiha, which contains two soap manufac-EdMp and tories, a good market, and 400 or 500 houses situated on the northern declivity of Jebel Erbyn, or the Mountain of the Forty.1 Six hours west-south-west of EdKp is the small town of Jisr Shuger, which contains several hospitals where a number of poor people are daily fed gratis, the revenue of 13 or 14 villages in the surrounding fertile country being assigned for the support of these praiseworthy establishments.8 Northward of Aleppo, and nearly in the centr...
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