In the Levant

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Charles Dudley Warner. In the Levant

In the Levant

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PREFACE

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IN THE LEVANT

I.—FROM JAFFA TO JERUSALEM

II.—JERUSALEM

III.—HOLY PLACES OP THE HOLY CITY

IV.—NEIGHBORHOODS OF JERUSALEM

V.—GOING DOWN TO JERICHO

VI.—BETHLEHEM AND MAR SABA

VII.—THE FAIR OF MOSES; THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCH

VIII.—DEPARTURE FROM JERUSALEM

IX.—ALONG THE SYRIAN COAST

X.—BEYROUT.—OVER THE LEBANON

XI.—BA'ALBEK

XII.—ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS

XIII.—THE OLDEST OF CITIES

XIV.—OTHER SIGHTS IN DAMASCUS

XV.—SOME PRIVATE HOUSES

XVI.—SOME SPECIMEN TRAVELLERS

XVII.—INTO DAYLIGHT AGAIN.—AN EPISODE OF TURKISH JUSTICE

XVIII.—CYPRUS

XIX.—THROUGH SUMMER SEAS.—RHODES

XX.—AMONG THE ÆGEAN ISLANDS

XXI.—SMYRNA AND EPHESUS

XII.—THE ADVENTURERS

XXIII.—THROUGH THE DARDANELLES

XIV.—CONSTANTINOPLE

XXV.—THE SERAGLIO AND ST. SOPHIA, HIPPODROME, etc

XXVI.—SAUNTERINGS ABOUT CONSTANTINOPLE

XXVII.—FROM THE GOLDEN HORN TO THE ACROPOLIS

XXVIII.—ATHENS

XXIX.—ELEUSIS, PLATO'S ACADEME, ETC

XXX.—THROUGH THE GULF OF CORINTH

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Charles Dudley Warner

Twenty Fifth Impression

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Near by is the ruin of a low, thick-walled chapel, of a pure Gothic style, a remnant of the Crusaders' occupation. The gloomy wady has another association; a monkish tradition would have us believe it was the birthplace of Jeremiah; if the prophet was born in such a hard country it might account for his lamentations. As we pass out of this wady, the German driver points to a forlorn village clinging to the rocky slope of a hill to the right, and says,—

“That is where John Baptist was born.”

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