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Date 1860, published 1861
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British Library HMNTS 10076.d.24.
Notes After various short ascents and descents we arrived at Ain Ata, a little village with a remarkably cold spring. From hence we descended by a rocky path into theravine separating the ridge of lower hills, over which we had passed, from the Lebanon itself; crossed a pretty brook, fed by the melting snow, (the infant Leontes,) and commenced in good earnest the ascent of the central range. After a ride of an hour and a half from Ain Ata we arrived at the snow; large patches were lying in the hollows, and shortly before reaching the top of the Pass we crossed a considerable field of snow and ice. A little dark clump of fir-trees, a thousand feet beneath us, was pointed out as the far-famed Cedars ...
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Image extracted from page 177 of Our Cruise in the Claymore, with a visit to Damascus and the Lebanon …, by HARVEY, Annie Jane. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

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