Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1832-11-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

AN1SN II - IL n ~ EDO3s
Eom The Charleston Courier.
We hive been favored with the following ex-
tract of u letter from gentleman on board II. NJ.
S Madagascar, dated,
Mourn CAaMEL, (Palcsune) May 4.
Having provided myself with pen, ink, 4 paper,
knowing that you have spice ,ouPon of the cnthu-
siast in your composition, write to you from this
holy ground-my t1blc the very rock they say on
which ELISHA slept, and hid himself from those
sent to seek linn You must be conteDtcd with
" on dts Nature alone remains in Sita--all hu-
man productions have SO often been overturned by
ehanses revolutions and invasons that little can
lie identified as belonging with certainty 10 any
particular time o. people.
But where am / In syria-in' the Holy Land
in thu i,c,ory OF tic Carmcitc Convent on
Mount Carngl-a cool large cave in the hard lnrc-
stone rock. F,om this mountain pronontory, there
is magnificent view O! the sea the horizon n
lone bounding the yic@ 10 the eastward Car
me. is range Of mountains OF inconsiderablc el-
ovation, cnveted with evergreen bushes, and trees
OF sma, groWth here and there, chiefly Of the lex
| and caiouba. Ihe plains or slopes at the foot OF
the mountain and indeed all over Syria are very
productive capable ofcv,ry vegetable produce from
the sugar Cane to the oat but they arc miserably
titled where one individual llvosa thousand ut
least nigh; 10 Supported 81. Jean dAcre, yon
will SIRE by the map lies in bay, Of which this
lpromonnry totns the sou,lN~n extremity. The
Egyptian army is now bcSGiglng IL; the shot and
shell a,c Aging necessarily Yesterday We rode
10 the ,'epchcs, and grouped upon little rising
mound, called he Noun. OF Richard CGur dc Lion,
observed the effect of the bombardment, and the
manG,uvres Of the Egyptian army. Upon some
preicxt or other---never wanting 10 the ambitious
the Pasha of Egypt, MonAMmED ALI, sends his
son, lBRAniM PAsuA, with well appointed army,
TO invade Syria, becoming TO the Sultan. lie has
ovorrou toe country unopposed as far Aleppo
hnd Damascus.- Acre alone hollis out, soutly too
You recol,cct how, assisted by Sir SIDNEY SMryH,
/, resisted twelve assaults of the French army un-
der BoNArAaTE The Egyptian army is one OF the
most picturesque hts imaginable The infantry,
Egytian Arabs, dark, Wild stupid looking fellows,
with scarcely perfect eye IN a company, dressed
in rel skull cap, brickdus, colorod jucket, and
loose ,rowscrs, tied nj the knee muskets bayonets
belts andk1apSacks they say they are good ma
cncs, * serve fila ditch as well as better men
The cavalry were Negroes from Mongolia, near A
Ibyssinia tail athletic fellows, mounted on fine A.
rab horses, clothed in white cotton, with red caps
armed with sabrcs pistols and lances with pcnoons
pointed train OF Artillery, and several hundred Gu
nels fot carrying the material ofthe army ,compos-
| es the force before Acre lDHAHlM is now at Babcc
| with fourteen thousand men. The Ottoman empire
IS 50 feeble, that 1t only acquires a powerful arm
TO shake II To pieces Thls Egyptian PAsHA is II
man of vigorous mind He has the uncontrolled
command Of all the resources of Egypt encourages
manufactures and arts has European officers and
II disciplined army according to modern usagcs
and II 40 European influence prevents it, he will
be ruler III Syria, as Ie Is III Egypt, Nubia, and
Arabia.
| The language fthese countries is Arabic The
| Asiatic loose DRESS with the turban is worn by all
with some modification, 10 distinguish sects. Re
igons Oh oil Sorts from Sabalsnl, or the old symbo
heal star worship, to meti~dlsm. The latter is
confined to the English and American missiona-
RES whose zeal has met with solitary instance of
success To the respectable mysteries they offer
us matters ofbcIieftho Syians oppose others equal.
ly credible. The Mussunan forbids them TO
preach TO hun on pain of the bastnado and the
creduous Greek is satisfied with the antiquity and
tangible fl orcs of his own christianity, and will
not exchange them for the mental figures of the mis-
sionares The Greek Christian is the prevailing
religion then the NHhomedan and Jewish AMI
sects OF division of ali these There is q singular
people in the distict of Mount Lebanon called
| Druses from what can make out, they are any
| thing Arians; but fac race Of people, and hospi-
| table. There are two ways of travelling through
Syria with satisfaction aad pleasure, as pilgrim
with bible in hund-wi,h warm Imagination
prepared TO receive divine truths all the legends
| the landthcn to be shewn the stable in Bethle-
hem, the carpenters shop in Nazareth, and the spot
where the cock crew to ST. Peter; but for this en-
ioyment you must have an immensely CT faith
and PROSTATE your understanding, and torture
| all you see 10 square with your book As an un-
bgoted phllanthropis with common sense and
some reading and knowledge ofthe world, he may
delight himself and enlishcn the world, otscured
and abused as it by excluslonary creeds but
am getting out Of my latitude.
These Carmcll;e padres have been making me
do penancc with them On Mount Lebanon Wine
which makes me d;scursive, wandering, and SEN
tcntious. These Roman Monks know how to live
my fasting penitentiary dinner to-day consisted
ola pillar ofricc without meat, fresh eggs fish,
salt fish, curds and cream good bread oranges, and
wine; the Superior each time we filled our glasses,
cried Out" ancora pentenz, penilenza," with his
Ncapolitan nasal wang" regler Yankee" in
tend to harmonic with the FIRST of your country |
ships that VIC meet, and as | expect in less than
SIX weeks to be both at Cai.o and Jerusalem.
shall IN my next give you some account Of my trip
The Greeks arc sp dep,osab.c ssss l.! svounlseis.