High, solid, and with many bold angles, it curved southwardly out of view.
"On the top there are four hundred towers, each a reservoir of water," the Hebrew continued.

"Look now! Over the wall, tall as it is, see in the distance two hills, which you may know as the rival crests of Sulpius.

The structure on the farthest one is the citadel, garrisoned all the year round by a Roman legion.
Opposite it this way rises the Temple of Jupiter, and under that the front of the legate's residence--a palace full of offices, and yet a fortress against which a mob would dash harmlessly as a south wind." At this point the sailors began taking in sail, whereupon the Hebrew exclaimed, heartily, "See! you who hate the sea, and you who have vows, get ready your curses and your prayers.

The bridge yonder, over which the road to Seleucia is carried, marks the limit of navigation.

What the ship unloads for further transit, the camel takes up there.