Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-06-03
President Durbin's Travels.

As all intelligence relative to tho tour Of our
esteemed fellow -crtizen. Rev j. T. DURBIN, Is
received here with the warmest interest, we are
happy TO be able 10 publish the following notice
OF his travels. which has been kindly furnished /
US --Seversl letters have lately beon received T
from him--the last from smyrna, dated April 9Th +
from which learn, that after visiting the
most interesting objects in Egypt, he followed the
route of the israeiItes to Sinai. Thence under !
the protection and guidance of 40 Arab escort,
he crossed the Desert to Notwithstanding, in !
the way, Akabah, from the neil hborhood of which
the ships of Solomon were won, IN sail for "goid,
silver, ivory, apes and .'eacocks'-Mount Hor.
where Aaron died in the presence of Moses and /
Eleazer and where bis tomb is sui preserved
with reverence--and noar II the "tomb girl" city
of Petra. Arrived a, Palestine. no stood al
Boersheba, by tho wells which Abraham d'gCed
/ at Hebron looked IN upon the cave 81 Mae
rhela. the butyng place of the Patriarch and his
family, now enclosed IN Turkish mosque, which
"Christian dogs" not allowed TO enter.--
Thence he passed by 30 chem TO Jerusnietn--
From the holy city he rambIed over the most in
terostng portions cf Palestine, not without dan
ger, as the country IL IN n very unsettled state
He visited Bethel, where God appeared to jacob
/ Shiloh, where The ark long res'ed -Svchen,
where the bones of Joseph buried, having
been brough, Oh, of Egyp,-aud where our Lord
held the conversation with the woman Of Sauna
ria.
He then proceeded by Mount Tabor, Nazareth,
Mount Carmel and Acre, TO Tyre and Sid0n, now
miserable lttle towns, and thence 10 Bevrout.-
He noxt visited Damascus, by the way IF the
mountains Of Lebanon; thence 10 Ba,bae, the ru
ms of which he thought TO exceed any he had be
fore seen in extent and grandeur some Of the
blocks of stone being sixty. seven feet long and
] twelve feet thick! Returning to Beyroui, no sail
ed 10 steamboat, 10 Smyrna, which he reached
D on the Sh Of April, the date of his last letter
having touched in his course ut the islands o.
. Cyprus, Rhodes and Paimos. a Smyrna he Ak
. pected TO be detained time III quaran tin e.
After that he designed TO visit the seat OF the
=. seven churches mentioned in the Revelations
d then Constautinople and Greece and afterwards
" to return home by the way Of England.
n If not detained by the guarantees, which are
so vexasously frequen, aud pro,racted in Eastern
countries. he may be expected home by the Col
J; lego Commencement the 18Th of July next
10 when doubt not he will DE greeted with hear
1t ~ welcome by his fellow citizens, and especail,
o. has so long and ably presided, and which may ex
pee, to derive additional advantages from The s'or
OF Of know ledge which he has accumulated durB
his interesting tour.
d II IL a pleasing evidence Of the present fac
ties Of intercourse between remote nations. tina
is OF the numerous letters which President Durbi
OF has written home. not one is known to have mis-
carried; and that the last which were mailed a
ar Smyrna not earlier than the Sh Of April, reach
RS ed this country on the l2ih of Nav.
~ (CGrlisle Herald.