Djebail Hauran Erdele Ageloun 9 7,500 4,500 3,000 65 10,300 7,000 3,300 85 28,490 16,980 10,740 31 6,400 1,400 110 21,140 17,750 390 211297 །ཆ༷ | ། ། ༄༞ ། ། ། ། | ། | །༞ | |g | | | 101 390 50 2622 4000 5290 190 70 290 5075 270 555 1 1 20 10 319 5503 501 2001 Maronites. Greek Catholics. Arminian Catholics. Orthodox. 700 euwass」3 | | | | g | |äc[g® ། ། | | | | |། 111111Catholic. Moslems. Orthodox. Catholic. 18 5 4 252 1 113 15 1 79 900 996 2 28 2 15 8 1522 526,812 387,068 78,262 8500 18,020 19,870 14,500 42,160 2700 70 9131 20,271 270 3482 3 4 84 88 374 42 72 Bedouin Arabs and other wandering tribes, which are very numerous, are not computed in this report. Damascus, May 19th, 1842. * Remnants of the Samaritans. (Signed) RICHARD WOOD. 72 ROAD UP THE BARADY. CHAPTER VIII. DAMASCUS TO BALBEC. Road up the Barady.-Village of Zabdané.-First Sight of Balbec.-The Greek Bishop.-Ruins.-The Terrace.-Courts.-Cyclopean Masonry.— Pantheon.-Temple of the Sun.-Traces of Christian Antiquity.-Of Egyptian Antiquity.—Of Roman and Arabian Dominion.-Return to Bey rout. Ar seven o'clock in the morning, in company with Captain P., of the East India Company's service, and Mr. G., of Australia, both Scotchmen, we left Damas cus for Balbec, the ancient Heliopolis of the Greeks. It is nearly two days northwest of Damascus, with the range of Ante-Lebanon between. Our road lay through a desert tract, mainly up the Barady, for five hou when it penetrated a deep, romantic mountain-gap. through which the torrent rushed, leaping down ledges and foaming against rocks, making the dells and hills resound. The rocky road passes over an ancient bridge of one arch, and then ascends the wild gorge. High up in the cliffs on either hand are tombs cut in the rocks; some are plain, but others have been adorned with porticoes, whose marble columns have fallen from their lofty terraces, and are lying in the stream below. Emerging from the wild pass, we came out into a wide plain running up north ten or twelve miles, narrowing as it ascended. It is entirely imbosomed in mountains, and thinly inhabited. In three hours we reached the village of Zabdané, near the head of the plain, and surrounded by orchards of all kinds of delicious fruits. Judging by the profusion of hewn stone and fragments |