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very good house here; but the two brothers shared the fate of all 
Christians who attempt to rise above their sphere ; they were both 
put to death in the same hour by the Emir’s orders; indeed there 
is scarcely an instance in the modern history of Syria, of a Chris 
tian or Jew having long enjoyed the power or riches which he 
may have acquired : these persons are always taken off in the mo 
ment of their greatest apparent glory. Abd el Hak, at Antioch; 
Hanna Kubbe, at Ladakie ; Karaly, at Aleppo; are all examples of 
this remark. But, as in the most trifling, so in the most serious 
concerns, the Levantine enjoys the present moment, without ever 
reflecting on future consequences. The house of Hayne, the Jew 
Seraf, or banker, at Damascus and Acre, whose family may be 
said to be the real governors of Syria, and whose property, at the 
most moderate calculation, amounts to three hundred thousand 
pounds sterling, are daily exposed to the same fate. The head of 
the family, a man of great talents, has lost his nose, his ears, and 
one of his eyes, in the service of Djezzar, yet his ambition is still 
unabated, and he prefers a most precarious existence, with power, 
in Syria, to the ease and security he might enjoy by emigrating 
to Europe. The Christian Sheikh Abou Nar commands at Dje 
bail, his brother is governor or Sheikh of Bshirrai. 
Many fragments of fine granite columns are lying about in the 
neighbourhood of Djebail. On the S. side of the town is a small 
Wady with a spring called Ayn el Yasemein ( e). The 
shore is covered with deep sand. A quarter of an hour from 
Djebail is a bridge over a deep and narrow Wady ; it is called 
Djissr el Tel (l—); upon a slight elevation, on its S. side, are 
the ruins of a church, callet Kenyset Seidet Martein (). 
Up in the mountains are two convents and several Maronite villa 
ges, with the names of which my Greek guide was unacquainted. 
In half an hour we came to a pleasant grove of oaks skirting the