Show B t A Z t lia A view of beirut from mt lebanon prepared by the ih national Geo geographic graphia solety wahington D C GUILT coastal metro metropolis poLls of abeen B frances I 1 syrian hj alan mandate inundate has him the lie door and chief depot for lie french I 1 in the military operations in ili tho the mandate inundate which tile the revolt of the lie cruses has made necessary many americans have lived in IStl rut find aind to them it Is a city of most pleasant memories picture nestling tit the base of tile the lebanon n anany in my tinted city pushed out into the lie setting sun him by the pressure of it 11 famous mountain range tills this range lies juit jint east of the city and robi it or of the lie early morning light it towers rs to 8 AM feet in a beautiful mountain whose snowy heights form the crystal stielf upon which la Is projected the rose glow klo of some of the lin worlds most colorful olor ful sunsets the hie backbone of the city stretches to tile the west nest from a low alluvial nl lual plain which almost makes beirut an island the wharves tire arc to the north looking away from the more famous but inferior ports of tyre lue and sidon to the south and tin toward the alier aher phoenician ports of tripoli and Alexand and 14 1 ellela all of which have old Phen lelan names long since forgotten by the inhabitants bertus was the name naine of beirut the waterfront Is 14 commonplace enough most of the lie year even though just out outside Hifle tile the disfiguring brink water anter there here lies the lie bluest most nemly nearly perfect curve cune of bay last east of naples i it lie nanie name of st george find although it Is tho the french that lime have improved it the british have ninde made it notable on oil their beautiful gold coltis coins now extinct once showed allowed st george killing d n dragon or rather the dragon mythology will tell you who st george was and why 11 ho okill killed the HIP aed dragon und and why the brihim I 1 ill put it on their coins and his bla cross cros on the their on r union jack but here st george slew the dragon and threw lalni ailin town down n well ivell nothing harms tin nn oriental well and if you dont believe it the well Is still there unit und if you go there on ii 1 dark night oil and gaze town down into the inky waters you will see the lie dragons eyed life and color in the tha city the streets are narrow and full of life ohp building 1 are in hues ugly near tit lit hand but truly from froin a distance on one of tile highest points nt at tile lie eastern end of tit lie high rah which the lip city stir straddles tiddles there Is or was a military barracks lar beirut has tram line i which run along the eichbone linck Nich honc bone and inbur the center of tie the city there Is 1 a I small park around which tho thi bratin turn here there here la Is another lne cne of trams which run to the south to 10 a beaucl beautiful f ul gro grove e of pines which were planted to save the city from the drifting sunds the western end of the limestone ridge Is called lins borrut or the point of beirut and near the extremity of this ilits section there Is one of the loveliest college campuses on earth w with h more than a score of principal ald b buildings u I 1 possibly nowhere else on earth has americas name been inori inore revered reared and so lovely Is the scene of the deep blue hay bay and the snowy mountain range that there tins has long been a standing argument between this college and the robert college at Rou roumell niell Ills II Issar sar 1 outside constanel Const antl nople on the as to which has haa the finer view lew tn in from the west and north sweep the waves which fire are eating away at the limestone cliffs and each year the shore line recedes before the lie alerc battle with the waters upon which the lie Phen phoenician ician argolies argosies argo sies set out in search of fame and commerce at one place thin the dashing waves have hae cut entirely entire cn arold ls around two towering musses of rock and bored a huge hole through the ali ide bide of one of them so that when llie lie storms come pigeon rocks nocks reveal a picture of anbry waves and steady stone slone narrow coxes coves extend in from the sea and in these one finds some of the finest natural swimming pools anywhere ani here for tile the bottom Is deep and the water clear and the sides rise grad gradually nally so EO that one can dive from varying heights from the waters edge to 80 feet these cares form the playground of 0 the college students and each has its if name there Is the preparatory cove for young oung students the college cove und and the lie faculty facility cove where the young american teachers swim front the hie harbor there rises rise s a cog wheel railway which connects the an dent clent city of damascus to the pea fell const coast it was this french railway a and in d the french harbor which gave beirut its prominence as a port and few indeed are the palestinian tour ests who have not passed over tills this rond road while leaving leading the worlds oldest city a groin green oasis in n the midst of the tawny desert and the cyclopean ruins of Ba albek to return to the ship tor for home any temperature desired the mou ii bains offer various sum mer resorts for the city of beirut and the preen green masses of the foothills are dotted with pretty lebanon villages from which thousands of syrians have set out across the sea as aa did the from the same sam 0 port but to land in america instead of beside the chalk of albion where tin was obtained in ancient times the natives say any that the lebanon has sur niner in its lap spring on its bosom and winter on its head and by 1130 moving VIng up the slopes one can find the temperature desired rich klch egyptians come this way in summer find and there are gaming places on lebanon that rival rhal monte carlo recently the au to mobile has come to the lebanon and up the winding roads there now climb motor cars of all shapes and sizes there are many commuters in summer time and each night the tired bu business bubines sines man main leaves the hot coast and takes dikes the business mans special to the cool retreat of aleah or suk el chart north from beirut there runs a famous n ous rood road and at dog river the cliffs are r curved carved with the proud inscriptions of conquerors who have passed this way since history began the population of beirut Is mixed blid the holidays many long famous for its learning it Is today a city of colleges and schools one of the great institutions in beirut Is the Aine american rican press which publishes most of the bibles and gospels that are issued in ar arabic a ble its product reaches it lip whole of the world during the war whole sections of tile the city were razed rated to make way for now roads and thoroughfares and the center of the city Is less and less picturesque as the days go by women not so beautiful through this close packed city of picture book houses there go the Christ christian lan women bare of face and none too beautiful and the moslem whose religion mercifully sup aliv a vell veil unless one hears the shout of the arbabi driving his spirited steeds before a shiny vic victoria torla he Is likely to have his boulder grazed by the passage of a levantine beauty P eloquent of face and redolent ot of perfume accompanied by some pale faced official with waxed mustaches chei and a blazing tar tur buche the syrian loves the sunsets and as evening settles down there Is a general exodus to the heights of ras beirut where the waves pile up from the west and the sun goes down in a radiant sea then the 1 line of carriages 1 is almost unbroken and the barren slopes are dotted with small groups of moslems with their barels ba liar eros rems which include all the female relatives from child t to grandma As though so much beauty could not exist uh challenged there are wretches who come to this loving tryst with the setting sun with talking machines against whose agonized screams in arabic melodies the roar of the waves Is ull oil in vain rain beirut was before the world we war r one of the principal religious crossroads of or the world here the mohammedan faithful dis embarked on the last lap of their pilgrimage to mecca and from here they salted sailed on the journey home today the moslem traffic Is in not ashl avy as it was wa but palestine tourists and pilgrims generally enter or leave the holy land via beirut so RO that they may include damascus the he worlds oldest city and Ba albek with its cyclopean Cyc lopan rut eulna lits in their tour |