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In October, Messrs.

Fisk and King rode to Tripoli, supposed then to contain fifteen thousand inhabitants.

From thence they proceeded to the Maronite Convent of Mar Antonius Khoshiah, situated on the brow of an almost perpendicular mountain, where was a printing-press.
Nearly all the inhabitants of that part of Lebanon are Maronites, acknowledging allegiance to the Pope.

Thence they visited the Cedars of Lebanon; and then crossed the rich plain of Coelo-Syria to Baalbek, at the foot of Anti-Lebanon.

Several of the places visited in this tour will come more properly into notice in the subsequent history.
Mr.Fisk returned to Jerusalem in the autumn with Mr.Jowett.