THE THISTLE and THE CEDAR OF LEBANON,

p. iiiPREFACE to the first edition.

p. viiCONTENTS.

p. 1INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

p. 5CHAPTER I. SCENES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.

p. 14CHAPTER II. PIRATICAL ATTACK ON BEYROUT.

p. 18CHAPTER III. DESCRIPTION OF DAMASCUS.

p. 41CHAPTER IV. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARIES AT BEYROUT.

p. 57CHAPTER V. EXCURSION TO CYPRUS.

p. 71CHAPTER VI. ALEPPO.

p. 85CHAPTER VII. ANTIOCH AND LATTAKIA.

p. 122CHAPTER VIII. FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND.

p. 164CHAPTER IX. VISIT TO PARIS.

p. 170CHAPTER X. STAY AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

p. 184CHAPTER XI. EGYPT.

p. 197CHAPTER XII. VISITS TO LADY ROLLE AND TO BATH AND CHELTENHAM.

p. 216CHAPTER XIII. IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND.

p. 233CHAPTER XIV. LIFE, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF SYRIA.

p. 259CHAPTER XV. SYRIA AND HER INHABITANTS.

p. 279CHAPTER XVI. SYRIA, HER INHABITANTS, AND THEIR RELIGIONS, CONTINUED.

p. 299CHAPTER XVII. CHRISTIAN INHABITANTS.

p. 317CHAPTER XVIII. THE POPULATION OF SYRIA, CONTINUED.—THE PAGAN INHABITANTS.

p. 338CHAPTER XIX. APPEARANCE AND COSTUMES OF THE PEOPLE.

p. 352CHAPTER XX. THE OCCUPATIONS OF THE PEOPLE.

p. 370CHAPTER XXI. THE COMPARATIVE INFLUENCES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT FAITHS IN SYRIA.

p. 384CHAPTER XXII. THE REMEDY.

p. 397APPENDIX. NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY OF SYRIA,

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