THE HOLY LAND, ASIA MINOR, &c. ILLUSTRATED. IN A SERIES OF VIEWS DRAWN FROM NATURE W. H. BARTLETT, WILLIAM PURSER, &c. WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLATES BY JOHN CARNE, ESQ. author of " ttrttrrs from tfte (Past." FISHER, SON, & Co.; LONDON, PARIS, & AMERICA. ADVERTISEMENT. The Publishers of this Work are most anxious that nothing on their part should be wanting, to render it worthy of the subjects they have undertaken to illustrate, and the consequent approbation of the Public. Deeply impressed, not only by the interest but by the sanctity which is attached to every memorial of The Holy Land—to its ancient and most sacred recollections, and to the prophesied contrasts of its existing condition—they have secured the literary co-operation of a gentleman whose name carries with it the assurance, that the task could not have been committed to talents more eminently fitted to do it justice; while, in the various departments of the Fine Arts, they have spared no efforts which liberality could suggest, to improve the effect of the written matter by pictorial representations of the highest class. It is impossible to estimate too highly the great advantages which this country is about to derive from the Manufacturing, Commercial, and Trading resources, scientific discoveries, and rapid intercourse of the East: the march of intellect and the flight of steam are advancing hand in hand into the heart of Asia ;—even while this volume has been in progress, new facilities have been opened in various directions. At the conclusion of this volume, so liberally supported, the Publishers feel confident that the forthcoming ones will increase in interest and beauty; their Artist, now in Palestine, having lately taken a series of Views, the subjects of which have never been touched on before. London, October 1, 1836. CONTENTS—AND LIST OF PLATES Hadgi or Mecca Pilgrims encamped near Antioeh Village of Eden, with the Tomb of the Consul Junction of a Tributary Stream with the Orontes Scene on the River Orontes, near Suadeah Antioeh, on the Approach from Suadeah Beteddein—Palace of the Prince of the Druses St Jean D'Acre—Mount Carniel in the Distance The Site of the Ancient Daphne Adana—Mount Taurus in the Distance The River Barrada, the Ancient Pharpar Six Detached Pillars of the Great Temple at Balbec Pass of Beilan, looking towards the Sea Ancient Cedars in the Forest of Lebanon The Pass of Beilan,—Mount Ainanus House of Girgius Adeeb, at Antioeh Der-el-Kamar, and the Palaces of Beteddein Part of the Walls of Antioeh, over a Ravine Lebanon,—General View of the Cedars Coast of Asia Minor, near Anainour Cafes in Damascus,—on a branch of the Barrada |