Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-02-11

and bored a huge hole through +
side OF one o. ~ LAdt when the |
storms come Pigeon Rocks reveal a |
spirited picture of angry waves and |
steady stone. Narrow coves extend In |
from the sea and in these one finds
some of the finest natural swimming |
pools anywhere for the bottom is deep
and the water clear and the sides rise
gradually so that one can dive from
varying heights from the waters edge
to thirty feet.
These eoves form the playground
of the college students and each has
Its name. There is the Preparatory
Cove for young students, the College
Cove, and the Faculty Cove where the
young American teachers swim. The
cliffs are pierced in placed by deep
caves and it is a wonderful adventure
for a seasoned swimmer to breast the
eating waves and wait outside the
narrow mouth of one of these till
j the beating waves lower a little and
then enter through the narrow mouth
which promptly close behind, illumi-
mating the interior with a lovely blue
light like that at the more famous
| Capri.
| From the harbor there rises a cog
wheel railway which connects the an
cient city of Damascus to the sea-
coast. 1t was this French railway and
! the French harbor which gave Beirut
its prominence as a point and few in
| deed are the Palestinian tourists who
| have not passed over this road while
leaving the worlds oldest city, a green
! oasis in the midst of the tawny desert
and the Cyclopean ruins of Baalbek,
to return to the ship. for home.
The mountains offer various sum-
mer resorts for the city of Beirut and
/ the green masses of the foothills are
not only dotted with pretty Lebanon
villages from which thousands of Sy-
i rians have set out across the sea as
did the Phoenicians from the same
port, but to land in America instead
beside the chalk cliffs of Albion, where
tin was obtained In ancient times.
1.-THE natives say that the Lebanon
has summer in it's lap, spring on its
:. bosom and winter on it's head and by
moving up the solpes one can find the
temperature desired. Rich Egyptians
come this way in summer and there
are gaming places on Lebanon that
rival Monte Carlo. Recently the au =
! tomobile has come to the Lebanon and
UP the winding roads there now climb
motor cars of all shapes and sizes
There are many commuters in summer
Lliile anu edCn night lHe tlT0Q DuSl-
. ness man leaves the hot coast and
takes the business mans special to the
: cool retreat of Aleih or Suk- ell Cha r b
North from Beirut there runs q
! famous road and at Dog River the
t cliffs are carved with the proud in
scriptions of conquerors who have
passed this way since history was hold
ing q rattle.
THE population of Beirut Is mixed
! and the holidays many. Some of the
churches are wealthy though the mos
} quest are generally small. Long ia
/ nous for its learning, it is today {
: city of colleges and schools. One o.
l the great institutions in Beirut is tn,
{. American press which publishes mas
: of the Bibles and Gospels that ar
:. issued in Arabic. Its product reaches
, the whole of the world
t During the war whole sections o
e the city were RACED to make way TO
: new roads and thoroughfares and tn
e center of the city is becoming less AM
h less picturesque as the days go by
e The seller of sweetmeats carrying hi
y tray on his head and his rude tripot
| on his arm, no longer has to look u
like a dying Gaul while balancing hi
Y load in the midst of buildings who's
: awnings and balconies strove to ro
: him of his livelihood
# What your soul desires he shout
g a S he tries to work up appetites 1
e the buying point and the seller o
& cooling drinks with a great ball o
It ebanon snow stuck above his highl
l. colored bottle clinks two brass bowl
o together in a way that is more nearl
related to the sound of clinking ic
in a cocktail mixer than any adver
n tisement for sickish syrups has an
y right to be.
Through this close packed city c
picture book houses there go tn
Christian women, bare of face an
none too beautiful, and the Mosler
women whose religion mereifullv sun
y plies veil. Unless one hears the shou
of the arbaii driving his spirited steed
before a shiny victoria he is likely t
have his shoulder grazed by the pas
sag e of a Levantine beauty, loquer
= of face and redolent of perfume, &C
- companied by some pale faced off
- cial with waXed moustaches and
= blazing tarbuche.
THE Syrian loves the sunsets an
- as evening settles down. there Is
% general exodus to the heights of RI
- Beirut where the waves pill from ii
west and the sun goes down in a re-
-, diant sea. Then the line of carriage
,e is almost unbroken. and the barre
slopes are dotted with small groups
- Moslems with their 'harems' which il
clude all the female relatives from II
- child to grandma. AS though so muC
~ beauty could not exist unchallenge
! there are wretches who come to tn
, loving tryst with the setting sun wit
talking machines, against whose agor
~ lied screams in Arabic melodies Il
roar of the waves is all in vaih.'