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Show IN CONSTANTINOPLE. The Palestine Prt' X.aat Vmym In the Land of Jnda.ii. Then oft toward Turkey, en route for Greece! (spklux core ESfOtf dknce of the uehld.) Hotel d' Anoletekre, Constantinople, April 4, 1S73. Editors Herald : We left Damascus on the morning of the 19th of March, having given up the idea of visiting the ruiua of Baal-bao, Baal-bao, aod took the nearest route for Beyrout, which is a fine macadamized wagon road, 112 kilometres or about 67 Knglish miles h og, builtby a French company, aud kept in excellent condition. condi-tion. This is in fact the only wagon-road wagon-road in Palestine and Syria, all the rest being pack trails and bridle paths, and no vohiole oould pass over them fur any distance. - The Scenery We passed through was very fino. Our road led for miles through gardens gar-dens and orchard0, and then through some romantic mountain gorges, that rominded us muoh of our canyons at homo; and wo camped for the night near the Arab village of Dimas, situated situ-ated on the spurs of the A nti-Lebanon. The following morning, before we loft, several thousands of black goatB came out of the different parts of the village vil-lage to be driven to the surrounding hills for pasturage. After passing through a few more canyons we descended des-cended tbo Anti-Lebanon into a large plain or rather highly cultivated valley, situated botween tho Lebanon and Anti-Iiebanon ranges ot mountains. Wo stopped for lunch noar the river Lithany, and camped for the night near Kab Ell nt, On a spur of tho mighty Lebanon. Friday morning, tho 21st ias very cold, and wo had to ascend for about two hours, before we reached the summit, sum-mit, which is here 6,825 feet high. For the rest of the day the road was continually con-tinually deBoending towards Beyrout, wliioh made this last day of ours in the saddle rather fatiguing. We had a beautiful view of the "Glory of the Lebanon," And the nearer we approached Beyrout, Bey-rout, the more the fertility of the soil and the beauty of the scenery increased. Wo passed through beautiful vegetable gardens, fig orchards and a large number num-ber of thrifty mulberry plantations, till we reached our camp ground at Boy-rout Boy-rout at 2.45 p.m. On the afternoon of the 22nd wo moved to the New Oriental Hotel, close by the Mediterranean, as our time for Palestine Camp -Life Had expired. The time of our departure depar-ture by steamer was fixed for the evening even-ing of the 24th, but she was about twenty-four hours behind time, and we had to lay over another day. At four p.m. we went aboard the steamer Mars, 400 horso power, 3,356 tons,and ftS it had hno.n hlnwintr harii a fun dniru ago, the ship rolled considerably, and quite a number of the passengers not seasick. Next morning the sea was calm, and we reached Larnaka, the principal oity on the Island of Cyprus, at 8.30 ?a.m., and stopped tLertJ till 4.15 p.m. to load and unload freight (mostly fruit) aod passengers. During the night and next day wo eteamed northwest, and had heavy headwinds, so that we oould not make up for lost time as was intended. At 5.30 a.m., the 28th, we dropped anchor at Rhodes, And stopped there about three hours, but the surf was so high that the captain cap-tain advised the passengers not to go ashore, except those who had to stop here. Five boats had been upset the day before, and three men had been drowned. Some parts of the island , looked very romantio and fertile. From i here we steamed in a northerly direo-! direo-! tion through the Grecian Archipelago t and passed a number of beautiful : islands, among them, a little after dark, the celebrated Island of Patmoa, Where John the Revelator had his wonderful visions. Early the following follow-ing morning we reached the Island Soio, where we took aboard a large number of oases of oranges and lemons. lem-ons. At 9:15 we left, and reached Smyrna at 4:15 in the afternoon. Sunday morning wo went ashore for about three hours, aod walked through the principal parts of this ancient oity, but we had no time to go to Ephosus-by Ephosus-by rail, to visit the ruins of the lately excavated temple ot tbo Dlaua of JGphcsua, Which we vory much regretted. Wo departed at 11:15 in the afternoon, and passed a number of islands. In the ovening we arrived at Megtilcno, the ancient Lesbor, and the following morning at Tcnedos. At 10 in tho morning we stopped one hour at Dar-denclli, Dar-denclli, passed a few miles further to Abydos, where Leander used to swim across to visit his beloved one. At 2 p. m. we reached Gallipoli, stopped stop-ped a couple of hours and then entered en-tered the sea of Marmora. Early on Tuesday, tho 1st of April, we reached the Golden Horn, and as the sun was rising we had a beautiful view from the deok of our steamer of the oity of CONSTANTINOPLE, with its many mosques and minarets. This oity occupies ono of tho finest natural situations in the world, being be-ing built upon a tongue of land of a triangular Bhape, which lies upon the west side of the southern entrance of tho Bosphorus. On the northern side of tho city is a branoh of the Bnsphorus, called tho Golden Horn which forms a magnificent harbor. Beyond thiB arc the suburbs of Pera, Galatea and Sophans, the former of which is tho principal seat of trade. We put up at tho Hotel d'Angletorre where we found a number of letters and papers from home, which were very welcome to us. as wc had not received re-ceived any letters since the 24th of February. In my next I will givo you a description of our visits at Constantinople. Constan-tinople. To-morrow morning we expect ex-pect to leave for Athens, reaohing ; there on the morning, of tho 7th, and j stay about five days in Greece. Mr. Keramorz Little with daughter and ! Mr.Thos. W. Jennings intend to leave our party at Syra, and go direct to Trieste, to roach there next Thursday, the 10th. Respectfully yours, Paul A. Sciiettler. |
