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Phoenician funerary monuments in the necropolis of Amrit, south of Tartus, Syria.

View of Arwad island outside Tartus, Syria.

The castle of Arwad on Arwad island.

A wandering dervish. A dervish of Syria.

Frontispiece to the sixth volume of the edition. A woman from Aleppo and a woman from Antioch.

An Arab from Syria. A Muslim woman of Arabic ethnicity from Egypt.

Druze women of Syria grinding flour.

Turkish man from Tunis and Turkish man drom Damascus.

Arab man from Syria.

Early Christian inscriptions from Syria.

Map of Syria and Assyria according to Claudius Ptolemy and other authors.

Map of the Eastern Mediterrranean showing the places mentioned in the Old and New Testament.

Frontispiece: Map showing the author's itinerary. Scene from the author's journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem.

The Phoenician funerary monuments known as al Maghazil or Towers of Amrit, at the entrance of Amrit necropolis, to the south of Tartus in Syria.

Plan of the subterranean funerary complex at the necropolis of Amrit, to the south of Tartus in Syria.

Nautical chart of the Mediterranean sea.

Nautical chart of the southern coast of Turkey, Cyprus and the coasts of Syria, Palestine and Egypt.

Nautical chart of the bay of Alexandretta in Turkey. Nautical chart of the port of Tripoli in Lebanon.

Outline of the coasts of Cyprus and Syria as seen from the sea.

Outline of the coasts of Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon and modern-day Israel as seen from the sea.

Map of the Holy Land.

View of Aleppo, Syria.

View of Damascus, Syria.

View of Aleppo, Syria. Ottoman caravan in the foreground.

The fountain at the courtyard of Sinan Pasha mosque in Damascus.

Water cisterns in Kteifa, town at the outskirts of Damascus. According to the author the cisterns provided water to the inn of the city and were also used as water troughs for domestic animals.

Preparation of wine at Aleppo, Syria.

Soldiers and guilds parade during the festivities which customarily took place when an Ottoman prince was born. The author had occasion to watch such a parade during his stay in Aleppo.

View of the castle of Margat or Markab and the city of Baniyas in Syria.

Map of the coasts of Syria and Lebanon.

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