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MARITIME CITIES OF PALESTINE.
distance of two hundred and sixty-four feet; another very large one has a groined roof with
ribbed arches ; a third, which is cemented, is said to have been " an oil vat capable of containing
two hundred and sixty thousand gallons."
About half a mile to the east of the northern harbour of Athlit the Crusaders had,
some time previously to the year 1191, built a small fort called Detroit (the " House of Narrow
Ways ") on ancient foundations on the sandstone ridge, at a point where it is seventy-five feet
above the sea-level, at a short distance north of the rock-cut defile above described. From
this " narrow way" it probably took its name. The fort having been greatly extended and
REMAINS OF A FORTIFIED KHAN AT MUKHALID.
A Saracenic structure, which has long been in ruins. It is nearly a mile from the seashore and close to the little village of Mukhalid. The
solitary tree near to it is a well-known landmark.
strengthened by the Templars in 1218, it served as an outpost for their fortress at Athlit.
The courtyard, within which there is a tower, is called Khan Dustrey, a corruption of Detroit
apparently. On the eastern side, north of the tower, there are rock-cut stables.
On the eastern side of the ridge, not far off, there is a fountain called 'Ain ed Dustrey,
which forms a tiny lake, and then finds its way through a narrow valley to the sea. The first
time I paused at this place, a group of goatherds with reed pipes were assembled round a
clay trough where their flocks were crowding to drink. It was in the month of September,
and the vegetation by the fountain and all along the stream was most luxuriant, consisting
distance of two hundred and sixty-four feet; another very large one has a groined roof with
ribbed arches ; a third, which is cemented, is said to have been " an oil vat capable of containing
two hundred and sixty thousand gallons."
About half a mile to the east of the northern harbour of Athlit the Crusaders had,
some time previously to the year 1191, built a small fort called Detroit (the " House of Narrow
Ways ") on ancient foundations on the sandstone ridge, at a point where it is seventy-five feet
above the sea-level, at a short distance north of the rock-cut defile above described. From
this " narrow way" it probably took its name. The fort having been greatly extended and
REMAINS OF A FORTIFIED KHAN AT MUKHALID.
A Saracenic structure, which has long been in ruins. It is nearly a mile from the seashore and close to the little village of Mukhalid. The
solitary tree near to it is a well-known landmark.
strengthened by the Templars in 1218, it served as an outpost for their fortress at Athlit.
The courtyard, within which there is a tower, is called Khan Dustrey, a corruption of Detroit
apparently. On the eastern side, north of the tower, there are rock-cut stables.
On the eastern side of the ridge, not far off, there is a fountain called 'Ain ed Dustrey,
which forms a tiny lake, and then finds its way through a narrow valley to the sea. The first
time I paused at this place, a group of goatherds with reed pipes were assembled round a
clay trough where their flocks were crowding to drink. It was in the month of September,
and the vegetation by the fountain and all along the stream was most luxuriant, consisting