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lately, part of the territory of the Prince of the Druzes, from
whom it was wrested by Djezzar*, who, though its harbour
was of great use to him, yet he allowed it to go to decay.
The walls of the town are of ancient date, flanked with
square towers at intervals, of no strength, but often form
picturesque groupes with the foliage of the neighbourhood.
The bazars are large, the principal one a square filled
with silks, the manufacture of Mount Libanon. The streets
are narrow, as in other Turkish towns; the houses of brick,
and some have even a respectable front, but generally in
decay. The bazars attracted a busy concourse of people,
and the mechanics, in their shops, appeared to work with in-
dustry. The chief population is Maronite, besides which
there are Greeks, Jews, and Turks. The trade from Beirutte
is wine, silks, raw and wrought, the produce of the moun-
tain ; and oil, from the olives of the plains between Seida
and Beirutte, considered the best in Syria.
name of his daughter, with the epithet of Happy, calling it Colonia felix Julia f.
This city was anciently a place of study, more particularly of the civil law, and
especially about the time that Christianity began to be publicly established %.
* Volney, 2d vol. p. 157, English translation.
t Id pra maritima etiamnum subjecta Libano fluvius Magoras. Berytus colonia quas Felix
■lulia appellator. Plin. Nat. Hist. v. 17.
» Sue the ecclesiastical history of Eustbius ;uid Socrates.
lately, part of the territory of the Prince of the Druzes, from
whom it was wrested by Djezzar*, who, though its harbour
was of great use to him, yet he allowed it to go to decay.
The walls of the town are of ancient date, flanked with
square towers at intervals, of no strength, but often form
picturesque groupes with the foliage of the neighbourhood.
The bazars are large, the principal one a square filled
with silks, the manufacture of Mount Libanon. The streets
are narrow, as in other Turkish towns; the houses of brick,
and some have even a respectable front, but generally in
decay. The bazars attracted a busy concourse of people,
and the mechanics, in their shops, appeared to work with in-
dustry. The chief population is Maronite, besides which
there are Greeks, Jews, and Turks. The trade from Beirutte
is wine, silks, raw and wrought, the produce of the moun-
tain ; and oil, from the olives of the plains between Seida
and Beirutte, considered the best in Syria.
name of his daughter, with the epithet of Happy, calling it Colonia felix Julia f.
This city was anciently a place of study, more particularly of the civil law, and
especially about the time that Christianity began to be publicly established %.
* Volney, 2d vol. p. 157, English translation.
t Id pra maritima etiamnum subjecta Libano fluvius Magoras. Berytus colonia quas Felix
■lulia appellator. Plin. Nat. Hist. v. 17.
» Sue the ecclesiastical history of Eustbius ;uid Socrates.