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Title: Narrative of the Euphrates expedition : carried on by order of the British government during the years 1835, 1836, and 1837.
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Chesney, Francis Rawdon, 1789-1872
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Publisher: London: : Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library
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Reach our strong escort of sixteen armed men giving us Jerash. & & & confidence, we went on, and reached Jerash early thefollowing afternoon, and at once set to work to examinethese most interesting remains. We kept moving about from place to place, and Ihad nearly finished my examination, especially of theeastern side of the ruins, and was about to return to theescort, when I perceived the point of a lance, with itsunmistakable fringe of black ostrich-feathers, peepingabout the buildings, followed by a second, and then by athird. Believing that there was little cause for appre-hension, with such ample protection at hand, and beingquite unencumbered, I hastened through the debris,which made the ground so broken and difficult that nohorse could have overtaken me, and so found my com-panion and the escort. Our party at once came forward,and made known to the hostile Arabs that we were underThe Beni- their protection. A long parley ensued, which ended Szacher. * Deut. iv. 43.
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fh THE RUINS OF JERASH. 45 bv the withdrawal of the Beni-Szacher section of the chap. . ni. Aniza to some little distance, and our people, having »—^—- thus shown a bold front, urged us to hasten our depar-ture as much as possible. Under different circumstances « this would have been a grievous disappointment. But,fortunately, we had already examined, with considerablecare, almost every part of the ruins of Jerash (onceGerasa). A detailed description of these ruins would demand Ruins of Jerash. more space than I can devote to it, but their site is toointeresting to be quite passed over. They occupy anelevated plain on the sides of Kerouan, or Seil-Jerash,and have a circumference of more than four miles.The most interesting portions of these remains extendfrom north to south, parallel to the right bank of theKerouan, or Seil-Jerash. They consist of a bridge, twogreat temples, one of which almost rivals that of theSun at Palmyra; a spacious semicircular colonnade,with the remainsnarrativeofeuphr00ches