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CAVERNS.
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labourers in the hot harvest-field sometimes enjoyed the luxury of water cooled from these
inexhaustible sources (Prov. xxv. 13).
With regard to these internal caverns, we will refer to one not far from Jebel Sunnin, in
WADY SHIB'A, FROM HEBBARIYEH.
The village of Shib'a may be seen on the summit of the second peak ; it is the highest inhabited place in Mount Hermon (Jebel esh Sheikh).
the Lebanon, which, from our own estimate, is not less than six hundred feet in depth. It is a
great pit in the earth, with vast unexplored chambers leading under the mountain, and even its
real depth has never been ascertained. The famous grottoes of Nahr el Kelb, north of Beirut,
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labourers in the hot harvest-field sometimes enjoyed the luxury of water cooled from these
inexhaustible sources (Prov. xxv. 13).
With regard to these internal caverns, we will refer to one not far from Jebel Sunnin, in
WADY SHIB'A, FROM HEBBARIYEH.
The village of Shib'a may be seen on the summit of the second peak ; it is the highest inhabited place in Mount Hermon (Jebel esh Sheikh).
the Lebanon, which, from our own estimate, is not less than six hundred feet in depth. It is a
great pit in the earth, with vast unexplored chambers leading under the mountain, and even its
real depth has never been ascertained. The famous grottoes of Nahr el Kelb, north of Beirut,