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that seems colder than ice. Of the unlimited view on every hand from this sacred height we
have already spoken. No traveller who can by any means accomplish it should fail to visit
the summit of Hermon, the grandest of all Syrian mountain-tops.

Very great interest is attached by scholars to the temples that exist about this sacred

MOUNT HERMON FROM RASHEIYA.

The name Hermon (like harem) signifies " unapproachable," or "the holy." The Sidonians called this Mount Sirion. The Arabic name Jebel
esh Sheikh means " Mountain of the aged " or "of the white-headed." It is also called Jebel eth Thelj, the " Snow mountain."

mountain. The number of such remains is itself surprising. Dr. Robinson visited no fewer
than thirteen, but the real number can perhaps never be known. Other persons since his day
have made a pretty thorough examination of them, and the facts that have thus far been brought
to light only stimulate our desire to know more of their ancient history and purpose. " They