The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-07-14

mental, moral, political and religious i'm
provements Of our times see that each
others feeling, and thoughts, and actions
are pure and true then will our life be
SUCH The wide pastures are but sepaS
rate spires OF grass-the sheeted bloom of
prairies but isolated flowers.
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MAKING THE Tour OF PALESTINE
''Why don't you have roads in your coun.
try? ?" queried Louis Napoleon of the
sultan at Paris. "The empress" he sd.
ded, "wishes to visit Jerusalem. " "There
shall be road, in one year from this
time, from Jafla to jerusalem was the
! reply, or rather such is the popular &C.
count Of what was said. At any rate,
| there came an order from the sublime
porte to construct the road. The people
| Of the country were summoned, and the
work has gone on by forced labor. 1t is
reported that the French company own
ing the diligence road from Beyrout to
Damascus are negotiating to obtain the
franchise, and il is probable that tourists
next year will be able to see Jerusalem
| without fatigue and at small expense II
| 'cbt'oto w tiOt " ullht tuc
through the country they may visit Jeru-
salem at any season of the year They
will find two good hotels where they can
obtain board at cheap rates, also the Rus,
sian convent and Prussian hospice, and
from whence they can make pleasant OK
cursions to Bethlehem, Mizpah Bethel,
and the cave Of Adulum, returning at
night. A visit TO the Jordan and Dead
sea will involve only one night of tent life,
and can be made at any season.
! But let all tourists think over what
they can bear Of fatigue. of long days in
the saddle, Of two or three weeks of con
tinuous hardship, before making a con-
tract to 90 through the country All
ladies who think Of making the tour will
| do we'll to practice few weeks by riding
oveI the rcckiest pastures, up and down
| the steepest hills they can find, or, if they
live in the city, they may practice riding
from basement to attic, and from attic to
basement,with an occasional turn through
the chambers and drawing-room, for va
riety. 1t is not steepness of hills or the
racks in the roads, which they have to
fear, but the continuous wear and tear OF
/: seven TO nine hours day in the saddle.
Strong constitutions can bear il, but the
majority of American ladies | am conf,
dent would have to summon all their
power Of endurance to go through with
out breaking down
A dragoman is a contractor, who pro-
vides an outfit, tents, horses, food, pro-
| fnRtiDD M cnaaina1 nj IN
per day and for 4 specified number Of
days. They swarm at alexandria and
Cairo. They lie in wait for travellers at
Jaffa and Beyrout, hut are most plentiful
in Egypt. They are exceedingly anxious
to make contracts IN Egypt to commence
that horses and mules cannot be obtained
at Jerusalem or Beyrout that dragomen
, in those places will charge twice or thrice
as much as they. Assuming that tourists
are ignorant Of all things relating to n
tour of the time required, of the cost
they will gravely inform you that the
trip cannot possibly be made short OF
thirty, or forty days, and at rate
: not less than seven to ten dollars q day
for each person, if the party numbers six
persons. If n traveller cares at all for his
comfort, his convenience and his purse,
let HIM make no contract except at Jeru.
> salem or Beyrout. have fallen in with
!, parties who engaged drag oman in Egypt
for thirty-iive days, ut the rate of eight
y dollars day for each person, who, after
y a week / the saddle, abandoned the trip
!, paying for the thirty five days! There
/" are few persons who will care to spend
!, that number of days in the saddle 1t i
better to make contract for fifteen G.
= twenty days, with a clause which vii
enable you to extend the time to am
y number of days you may desire.
! II one wishes to visit Jerusalem h
" may the coming season ride from Jafia t,
i that city in a diligence, find good boar,
in the hotels at - day, obtain horse
- for 81 day, and visit all the localite
v within day OF the city. To 90 10 tn
y Jordan,a tent for one night is needed. 7
!" Hebron is visited, bed and cold luncl
" for supper and breakfast is all that i
70 needed There is government buildin
y" Just outside the town where you can fin
"c shelter; Dragomen reap their haryes
~ a. during the travellers season and some G
!" them are able to obtain great prices 10
their services and outfits. One of tn
~ - best dragomen in Syria conducted
=, party OF eight through tine country thi
y year at - day, each person. Anothe
10 10 dragoman obtained so for each perso
le in party of five know of one gentle
man who has been iorty-three days in til
st country at n cCst of SlG3 while anothe
has been there ihirty-fve days, at COS