The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-11-17

In my last communication i men
toned that this letter would bring Us
to Syria, landing az
BEIRUT.
Through the kindness Of Rev. w.
Calhoun, we were at once, on our ar
rival at Beirut, enabled to make the
acquaintance of President Bliss, and
see the fourishing college under his
charge. Here, too, we met the inter
esti1g author of the Land and the
Book" DR.. Thompson. He was also
good enough to take US to his church,
which, with familiar names on the
news. such as that of Mr.. Dodge, and
he fine organ just presented and sent
out from Boston, awakened many
home "reminiscences, especially when
Mr.. Halleck, the Superintendent Of
the Arabic Bible Electrotyping and
Printing Establishment, struck the
chords in tones so familiar to Ameri-
can ears, such as Mason, Bradbury,
and others, have made quite general
iy known.
The charm was completed when,
on arriving at our Consuls, letters
and newspapers greeted our eyes.
which had been sent to the care of
DR.. Jessup, as we had had the pleas
ure of making his acquaintance In
the United States. This gentleman
resides, being now connected with
the Theological Seminary, at Abelh,
in the mountains. We were not for
tunate enough to see him, but learned
that his labors In that department
had been very successful. We were
informed that DR.. Bird had an excel
lent collection Of the fossils of the
surrounding region, which are very
abundant; and our reliable informant
stated that Mr.. Calhoun, who is also
a theological professor, and has
friends in Evansville, il very highly
esteemed by the people who have so
often experienced his kind-hearted
benevolence.
The college, or university, In Bel
rut (for there is an excellent medical
department under the care of -Drs,
Vandyke, Post, and Of o talented ma
tive doctor, who graduated in Edin-
burgh, } has been in operation very
successfully for some years, the en-
dowment fund of the whole being the
result mainly of the eXertions Of Its
President. lie obtained liberal sub
scriptions from many wealthy indi-
yiduals in the United States, and con-
siderable sums in England, which he
was enabled to use until the funds OF
the United States could be more ia
Vorably converted into gold than al
first.
Their Cabinet is very good, contain.
ing not only meteorological specimens
sent from the United States, out also
a fine illustrative series of fossils
from the cretaceous and tertiary Of
this region, such as impurities of diff
ferent species, and many from the
families of ortrou8 and cardiacoe
A cabinet of Phenician antiquities
has recently been added from Kittine
in Cypress. In the Medical Depart
ment are many fine preparations; also
the inimitable French models for the
study Of human anatomy, as we'll as
others admirably adapted for the ex.
PLANTATION of vegetable structure. A
good hospital is connected with thi:
department.
The apparatus for Physic and
Chemistry is from Chamberlain, o.
Boston, and adequate for ell ordinar!
1uo dCbAOl
of the air-pump, in raising and sus
tanning a considerable weight Whel
the air was removed from q cylinder
above it, ELECTED from the Pasha, OF
one of his visits, the exclamation, il
Arabic, God is Great"
We were also highly gratified by {
visit to the electrotyping establish
ment where everything is made b,
natives under Mr.. Hallock's supervis
ion, from the cutting Of the first di
to the binding Of the volume wheI
completed. Our New Testament il
Arabic, can now be bought for les
than twenty-five cents.
MOUNT LEBANON AND ANTI-LEBANoN
Paying about six dollars for eacl
place In the coupe of the Damas
Gus diligence, we commenced at 4A.M
the ride from Beirut over Lebanon
and anti Lebanon, or at least over tn
former and through one of the passe
Of the latter to Damascus.
Some Of the limestone over which
We passed, after we left the tertiar,
and cretaceous, seemed, as far as coult
be judged by getting out several time
in the ascent and taking specimens
but not finding fossils, Jurassic IN age
compact and almost photographic il
Theological character. Towards tn
top the trap was frequently seen
which had brought up the Ju
rassic as well as more recent strata Oh
the TANKS. the angle of dips being FIRE
quently 40, and sometimes as high q
S0' or even 90'. In few places tn
beds are curved upward, more oftei
downward, but nowhere were plica
tions seen.
Much Of Anti Lebanon, seen as VI
passed through, was a frible carbon
ate of lime of chalky wilderness an
probable cretaceous age, giving rise
no doubt, to the name of the noun
tain. Before entering the gorge, Nj
Hermon, or the mountain of tn
white beard, as some render it, froI
the snow remaining long upon it, wa
frequently visible in all his grand
eur. But the most striking scener
on the whole route, equallin
some of the justly noted Alpin
passes, is the Valley of tn
Horn, Wady ell Kurn, where o.
each side tower aloft, to several hun
dred feet in height, precipitous rocks
cleft here into dark chasm, Their
arched into q robber cavern, In on
place huge pulpit shaped projection
IN another natural amphitheatre, o
gigantic proportions, and stern archi
lecture; on our left bastion-lookin
natural towers, that might hav
served Titans for salient point,
from which to lombard their Cyclop
neighbors, on the opposite palisade.
which crowned the magnificent struc
ture; the giant relics hurled from th
top, and still lying at the foot. threat
oninO IN har our road The enfrauo