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SYRIA, THE LAND OF LEBANON
The Acropolis of Baalbek—1, The Propylæa; 2, The Forecourt; 3, The Court of the Altar; 4, The Basilica of Constantine; 5, The Great Altar of the Temple; 6, Byzantine Baths; 7, The Temple of Jupiter-Baal; 8, The Six Standing Columns; 9, The Great Stones in the Foundation Wall; 10, The Temple of Bacchus.
stand how the most scholarly of all Syrian travelers could say that the temples of Baalbek "are like those of Athens in lightness, but far surpass them in vast-
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