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BAALBEK.
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We have now reached the second triple gateway, leading to the outer portico. There is a
central gateway seventeen feet wide, with side arched portals ten feet wide. Passing through,
we find ourselves in the magnificent portico, a worthy entrance to so splendid an interior.
RUINED MOSQUE, NORTH OF BA'ALBEK.
Rudely built of ancient materials. There are ten columns of polished red granite and eighteen limestone columns, all surmounted by richly
carved limestone capitals.
This portico was approached on the east side, as we have already seen, by an immense staircase
now entirely gone, its materials having been used in building the Saracenic fortress which
walled up the entrance. The floor is twenty feet above the outside level, and the portico is
one hundred and eighty feet long by thirty-seven feet deep, having twelve columns in front, of
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465
We have now reached the second triple gateway, leading to the outer portico. There is a
central gateway seventeen feet wide, with side arched portals ten feet wide. Passing through,
we find ourselves in the magnificent portico, a worthy entrance to so splendid an interior.
RUINED MOSQUE, NORTH OF BA'ALBEK.
Rudely built of ancient materials. There are ten columns of polished red granite and eighteen limestone columns, all surmounted by richly
carved limestone capitals.
This portico was approached on the east side, as we have already seen, by an immense staircase
now entirely gone, its materials having been used in building the Saracenic fortress which
walled up the entrance. The floor is twenty feet above the outside level, and the portico is
one hundred and eighty feet long by thirty-seven feet deep, having twelve columns in front, of
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