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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
Solomon, the key of Persia and India, the city of palaces, the home of Zenobia, the school of
'AIN FIJEH.
This fountain issues from a cavern with two openings, over one of which there
is an arch. It forms at once a rapid stream thirty feet wide and three or
four feet deep, which rushes over a rocky bed for eighty yards and then joins
the Barada.
mm }f the sublime Longinus, built in remote antiquity,
fortified and beautified by kings and emperors, is
now, alas, a magnificent ruin! It stands in an
oasis in the Syrian desert, about half-way between
the Orontes and the .Euphrates, and about one
hundred and twenty miles east-north-east of
Damascus. Josephus says, " Solomon built strong
walls there to secure himself in the possession, and named it Tadmor, which signifies the Place
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
Solomon, the key of Persia and India, the city of palaces, the home of Zenobia, the school of
'AIN FIJEH.
This fountain issues from a cavern with two openings, over one of which there
is an arch. It forms at once a rapid stream thirty feet wide and three or
four feet deep, which rushes over a rocky bed for eighty yards and then joins
the Barada.
mm }f the sublime Longinus, built in remote antiquity,
fortified and beautified by kings and emperors, is
now, alas, a magnificent ruin! It stands in an
oasis in the Syrian desert, about half-way between
the Orontes and the .Euphrates, and about one
hundred and twenty miles east-north-east of
Damascus. Josephus says, " Solomon built strong
walls there to secure himself in the possession, and named it Tadmor, which signifies the Place