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REMAINS OF TEMPLES.
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itself to adorning- with verdure the broad fields that lie about one of the oldest and most
attractive cities of the East. From these cliffs we look down upon Damascus, which lies at
THE TEMPLE AT DEIR EL 'ASHAIR.
It stands on a platform of massive masonry, one hundred and twenty-six feet long by sixty-nine feet wide, and about twenty feet high on the
eastern side, which faces Mount Hermon. The village is inhabited by a few families of Druses and Christians.
our feet, and, while we admire its extensive gardens and pleasant dwellings, our minds are
busy with its historical associations, which, throughout all its long past, have been so thrilling
and strange that they compel us to look upon the place with feelings of wonder and reverence.
379
itself to adorning- with verdure the broad fields that lie about one of the oldest and most
attractive cities of the East. From these cliffs we look down upon Damascus, which lies at
THE TEMPLE AT DEIR EL 'ASHAIR.
It stands on a platform of massive masonry, one hundred and twenty-six feet long by sixty-nine feet wide, and about twenty feet high on the
eastern side, which faces Mount Hermon. The village is inhabited by a few families of Druses and Christians.
our feet, and, while we admire its extensive gardens and pleasant dwellings, our minds are
busy with its historical associations, which, throughout all its long past, have been so thrilling
and strange that they compel us to look upon the place with feelings of wonder and reverence.