PREFACE to the first edition .
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
CHAPTER I. SCENES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.
CHAPTER II. PIRATICAL ATTACK ON BEYROUT.
CHAPTER III. DESCRIPTION OF DAMASCUS.
CHAPTER IV. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARIES AT BEYROUT.
CHAPTER V. EXCURSION TO CYPRUS.
CHAPTER VI. ALEPPO.
CHAPTER VII. ANTIOCH AND LATTAKIA.
CHAPTER VIII. FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND.
CHAPTER IX. VISIT TO PARIS.
CHAPTER X. STAY AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
CHAPTER XI. EGYPT.
CHAPTER XII. VISITS TO LADY ROLLE AND TO BATH AND CHELTENHAM.
CHAPTER XIII. IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND.
CHAPTER XIV. LIFE, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF SYRIA.
CHAPTER XV. SYRIA AND HER INHABITANTS.
CHAPTER XVI. SYRIA, HER INHABITANTS, AND THEIR RELIGIONS, CONTINUED.
CHAPTER XVII. CHRISTIAN INHABITANTS.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE POPULATION OF SYRIA, CONTINUED. THE PAGAN INHABITANTS.
CHAPTER XIX. APPEARANCE AND COSTUMES OF THE PEOPLE.
CHAPTER XX. THE OCCUPATIONS OF THE PEOPLE.
CHAPTER XXI. THE COMPARATIVE INFLUENCES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT FAITHS IN SYRIA.
CHAPTER XXII. THE REMEDY.
APPENDIX. NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY OF SYRIA,
NOTES.
This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler.
Portrait of the Author
THE THISTLE
and
THE CEDAR OF LEBANON,
by
HABEEB RISK ALLAH EFFENDI,
m.r.c.s.,
and associate of king’s college.
“And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon, sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife; and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.”—2 Kings xiv. 9.
second edition.
LONDON:
JAMES MADDEN, 8 LEADENHALL STREET.
1854
london:
printed by wertheimer and co.
finsbury circus.
