Science papers, chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury ... Edited, with memoir by Joseph Ince.

  • Daniel Hanbury
Date:
1876
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Credit: Science papers, chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury ... Edited, with memoir by Joseph Ince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    small, pretty Crocus; some Alsineae and Compositae. No trees. Hanbury and Mr. G. Washington sketched and planned the Cedars. The largest is forty feet in girth, and three others are also very large; all the largest are very old and branch from the very base. The smallest are about twenty-seven inches in girth, which by comparison of sections of older trees and rings would make the youngest about fifty years old. All are of much the same character; are short-leaved, not glaucous, dark green, and very horizontally branched. Several trees stand well apart from the group. [Dr. H.] Two ascents of Lebanon were made, nor were the travellers slow to admire the superb character of the Baaibec view obtained from the summit. Baalbec was the next px)int of interest, and they camped in the hexagon of the great temple. They were lost in astonishment at the grandeur of the ruins, and the beauty of the moonlight- They gazed on the splendid purple of Lebanon in the setting sun, and the orange of Anti-Lebanon— splendid/' Dr. Hooker remarks, in spite of Turks and Damascus, earthquakes. And now Damascus burst upon the view. What can be said in new coined language of the mao-ni- licence of its panorama; or of the beauty and lovely situation of the city? Immense valleys, rich, bright green trees, mulberries, figs, walnuts, aspens, poplars, vines, and cypresses. Under such circumstances it is difficult to avoid turning poet as well as a botanist. The city forms a winding stream of clay-coloured houses meandering through the velvet green, the lights and shades of which are admirable. Yet the city itself has no recommendation but its site : the lanes were very bad, and there were loads of Turkish soldiers every- where. The two companions entered by low gates of