Excerpt from Ride Through Syria to Damascus and Baalbec, and Ascent of Mount Hermon

Our "Ride through Palestine" did not exhaust our enthusiasm for the East, we were not, as some travellers have been, disappointed with "The Holy Land, " because we did not expect to find it still, as in ancient days, "a land of milk and honey." The cisterns are broken and the waters run to waste, the walls of the vineyards are cast down, the very soil has disappeared from the once fertile terraced heights, the wine presses are covered with weeds, the defenced cities are all a ruin, but, in spite of all this desolation, the Land of our Lord will always have an overwhelming interest for the thoughtful traveller who wishes to trace out on the spot the history of the oldest and most interesting people of the world.

Having on the former occasion travelled by the beaten track, via Jerusalem, we this time try a new and unfrequented route.

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