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PALMYRA.
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of Palm-trees." Ancient writers describe it as a city of merchants, and proverbial for its
WAYSIDE TOMBS IN WADY BARADA.
Where walnut and fig trees yield abundantly, and the oleander flourishes. Rows of poplar trees
peering out of the gorge mark its course.
wealth and luxury. It has been suggested that this Indian trade
was the cause, in ancient as in modern times, of much of the
military strife between the eastern and western nations, and that
it occasioned the continual wars between Assyria and Babylon on
the east, and Palestine and Phoenicia on the west. After the time
of Solomon it is not even mentioned in history for nearly ten
centuries. And it is a striking fact, that among the extensive
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441
of Palm-trees." Ancient writers describe it as a city of merchants, and proverbial for its
WAYSIDE TOMBS IN WADY BARADA.
Where walnut and fig trees yield abundantly, and the oleander flourishes. Rows of poplar trees
peering out of the gorge mark its course.
wealth and luxury. It has been suggested that this Indian trade
was the cause, in ancient as in modern times, of much of the
military strife between the eastern and western nations, and that
it occasioned the continual wars between Assyria and Babylon on
the east, and Palestine and Phoenicia on the west. After the time
of Solomon it is not even mentioned in history for nearly ten
centuries. And it is a striking fact, that among the extensive
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