Wilson, Charles W. [Hrsg.]; Fenn, Harry [Ill.]: Picturesque Palestine: Sinai and Egypt ; in 2 volumes (Band 2) (New York, 1883)

PHCENICIA AND
LEBANON,

With these came they, who from the bordering flood
Of old Euphrates, to the brook that parts
Egypt from Syrian ground, had general names
Of Baalim and Ashtaroth."

" And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and the Hivite, and the Arkite,
and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite."

I ^HIS ethnological record in the tenth chapter
A of Genesis, the most ancient in existence,
gives us the earliest account of the Phoenician
aborigines. Hamath, on the north-east, and
Accho (Acre), on the south-west, were the extreme
borders of ancient Phoenicia. The Sidonians
occupied the coast from Gebal, or Byblos, the modern
Jebeil, on the north, as far as Accho, or Acre, on the
south. One division of the Hhntes occupied Shechem
and Gibeon, and the other the chain of Anti-Lebanon
from Baal Hermon to Hamath. The Arkites lived in
the plain north of Lebanon, between the mountains of

HASRUN, A MARONITE VILLAGE All" i .1 -\t 1 , T> \ . - .

of North Lebanon, on the summit of a precipice on the Akkar and the 1\ ahr el Kebir, their name still remaining

south side of the gorge of the Kadisha (the sacred .

river)- in the lell and river of Arka.

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