Excerpt from The Trestle Board, Vol. 19: October, 1905

Here and there, however, far above the Olive orchards and mulberry groves, higher even than the wheat fields or'pine forests, are a few groups of cedars. The finest trees are those found above the village of Besherri, some twenty miles inland from the port of Tripoli. They grow upon a high plateau, more than six thousand feet above the Mediterranean. Just be hind rises the highest mountain in all Syria, and in front they look down over a magnificent panorama of fertile valleys, with the sea in the distant background. The nearest village is a thousand feet down the mountain, and the last cultivated field stops just short of the cedar grove.

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