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Leaving Damascus.—Arrival at Beyrout.—Trip to Aleppo.—Enters Asia Minor1.—The Scenery and People.—The Hills of Lebanon.—Beautiful Scenes about Brousa.—Enters Constantinople.—A Prophesy2.—Return to Smyrna.—Again in Italy.—Visits his German Friend at Gotha.—The Home of his Second Love.—Goes to London.—Visits Gibraltar.—Cadiz.—Seville.—Spanish History.
“Upon the glittering pageantries
Of gay Damascus streets I look
As idly as a babe, that sees
The painted pictures of a book.”
—Taylor’s Oriental Idyl.
From Damascus Mr. Taylor journeyed to Baalbec, where are the most imposing3 ruins to be found in Syria, and where stand six of the most symmetrical and exquisitely4 carved columns to be seen in Asia or Europe. He described the temples and fragments so vividly5, that travellers who have taken his “Lands of the Saracen” for a guide have seldom been disappointed or mistaken in their anticipations6, the actual scene they look upon being so like the image they formed in their minds while reading his description. The gift of portraying8 through the combination of words and sentences an accurate picture of a city existing in a[195] strange land and amid a strange people, is a rare gift, and the number is very few of those who are found to possess it. Mr. Taylor was one of those privileged ones. In his description we see the columns, cornices, pediments, walls, platforms, broken pillars, and falling pavilions as distinctly as they appear when we afterwards look upon those romantic piles with the natural eye. To him, as to others, it was a study to determine, if possible, how such enormous blocks of stone, sixty-two feet long and ten feet in diameter, could have been transported and placed in the buildings. It is beyond all the skill of to-day to move nine thousand tons of stone in a single block with the conveniences of that time.
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fatigue
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civilized
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conflagrations
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coveted
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anathemas
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celebrated
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majestic
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disposition
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dedication
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bosom
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abortive
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