Volume 1

The natural history of Aleppo. Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood. Together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague / By Alex. Russell, M. D.

  • Alexander Russell
Date:
1794
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The natural history of Aleppo. Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood. Together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague / By Alex. Russell, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Georges Gate. It formerly was called the Jews Gate ; but that name was changed by the fon of Saladin, Milek al Daher, who rebuilt the gate more fuperbly than it had been before, and called it Bab al Nafer, or Gate of Vic- tory. Under this gate a lamp is conftantly burning, near an iron grate; and the Turks may often be obferved to ftop there for a few minutes, and to mutter certain prayers or ejaculations. According to the miflionaries, it was once the refidence of the prophet Elifha, and the lamps are kept burning in commemoration of that faint °°. From Damafcus Gate to the Iron Gate, the wall ftands on the plain, is of no great height, and in many places low and ruinous: the moat is hardly vifible. But from Tron Gate to St. George’s Gate the wall is of a very con- fiderable height, and the moat very broad, inclofing a fecond hilly diftrict, named Jibeely. From St. George’s to the firft Weftern gate the wall has alfo been of great height, but is now converted into high piles of private houfes, inhabited by the Jews. The wall on the Weft fide of the town is lofty and well built, but in many places its ruin has been haftened by the encroachments of the private buildings within. The ditch is moftly filled up, though not planted as in other parts; the high road paffing under the wall. The ** Memoires des Miffions dans Le Levant. Paris; 1753. ‘Tom. vi. p- 175. | firft
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