Show DELIGHT TO WEARY TRAVELER green gardens of damascus rest the eye after long journey through the desert the chief attractions at damascus are the orld famed gardens which surround the city the glimpse we get of oriental life as found in the bazars fine streets the shops and last but by no means of less interest the fa mosque of lades one hundred and fifty square miles of green lie ile in compact ader round about damascus spread iut jut with all the profusion of a virgin forest or chard and flower gardens paries parks plantations of corn and of other prod uce pass before the eye in rapid and changeable succession the natives claim that there are more than 3 miles of shady lanes in the gardens of damascus through which it is ble to ride on such a ride the visitor passes orchards of figs and orcha ds of apricots for hedges there Is the briar rose and for a canopy the wal nut pomegranate Iome granate blossoms glow through the shade the vine boughs trail across the briars a little water fall breaks on the edge of the road and all this water and leafage are so lavish that the broken bild mi d v pill md slovenly houses have no power to vex the eye these long gardens of da maeci s form the paradise of the arab world making a pilgrimage to the city after weeks and months of dreary and desolate desert life the running water Is a joy to his sight and music to his ears and it Is something to walk through shady Is lanes nes to admire the variety of landscape and the beau ty of scenery in a land where the sun beats down all day wit with h unremitting force until the earth Is like a furnace of iron beneath a sky of molten brass biblical world |