The town looks respectable enough, and contains some spacious houses.

The fortress is separated from the town by a small bay, across which a wooden bridge has been built.

The fortress seems in a very dilapidated condition; many breaches are still in the same state in which they were left after the taking of the town by the English in 1840, and part of the wall has fallen into the sea.

In the background we could descry some ruins on a rock, apparently the remains of an ancient castle.
The next place we saw was Sarepta, where Elijah the prophet was fed by the poor widow during the famine.
The Lebanon range becomes lower and lower, while its namesake, the Anti-Lebanon, begins to rise.

It is quite as lofty as the first- named range, which it closely resembles in form.