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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
gardens cannot be seen even in the charming scenery of
southern England. But its verdure is vernal only, for
while the gardens and orchards, irrigated by the Auwaly,
retain their fresh green aspect throughout the year, the
plain and hillsides are burned by the summer sun to an
arid and dusty brown.
The most interesting antiquities about Sidon are the
fragments of mosaic pavements on the
north, the hill of broken murex purpura
on the south-west, from which the
Tyrian purple dye was extracted, and
KHAN NEBY YUNAS (THE KHAN OF THE PROPHET JONAH).
Adjoining a Muslim shrine sacred to his memory. Close to it there is a group of
mulberry-trees, and beyond are groves of olive and fig trees belonging to the village
of Neby Yunas, called also El Jujeh.
the famous Necropolis on the plain south-east of the
town. This city of the dead, as mapped by Renan,
contains a vast number of tombs of various kinds, which
are deeply interesting. There are rectangular grottoes,
which are the most ancient, entered by steps cut in the
sides of a vertical shaft, from which doors lead into rock-
hewn chambers similar to those in Egypt. The vaulted
grottoes are entered by nights of steps, and have side
niches for sarcophagi, many of which are still in place.
There are also grottoes lined with lime cement, painted in the Grseco-Roman style, some
having Greek inscriptions. In the rectangular grottoes are marble sarcophagi of the
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
gardens cannot be seen even in the charming scenery of
southern England. But its verdure is vernal only, for
while the gardens and orchards, irrigated by the Auwaly,
retain their fresh green aspect throughout the year, the
plain and hillsides are burned by the summer sun to an
arid and dusty brown.
The most interesting antiquities about Sidon are the
fragments of mosaic pavements on the
north, the hill of broken murex purpura
on the south-west, from which the
Tyrian purple dye was extracted, and
KHAN NEBY YUNAS (THE KHAN OF THE PROPHET JONAH).
Adjoining a Muslim shrine sacred to his memory. Close to it there is a group of
mulberry-trees, and beyond are groves of olive and fig trees belonging to the village
of Neby Yunas, called also El Jujeh.
the famous Necropolis on the plain south-east of the
town. This city of the dead, as mapped by Renan,
contains a vast number of tombs of various kinds, which
are deeply interesting. There are rectangular grottoes,
which are the most ancient, entered by steps cut in the
sides of a vertical shaft, from which doors lead into rock-
hewn chambers similar to those in Egypt. The vaulted
grottoes are entered by nights of steps, and have side
niches for sarcophagi, many of which are still in place.
There are also grottoes lined with lime cement, painted in the Grseco-Roman style, some
having Greek inscriptions. In the rectangular grottoes are marble sarcophagi of the