Persons incidentally mentioned: Abdul Hamid II., 76f, 108n Abel, 69, 88 Abraham, 88, 90f, 98, 101 Abulfeda, 93 Adam, 88 Alexander the Great, 26 Amenhotep, Pharaoh, 26 Ananias, 119 Antar, 142 Antoninus Pius, 190 Antony, Mark, 133 Argyll, Duke of, 146 Asad Pasha, 110 Ashur-nasir-pal III., 34 Augustus, 26 Aurelius, Marcus, 34 Baldwin of Flanders, 26, 91 Balkis, Queen of Sheba, 129, 190 Benjamin of Tudela, 190 Bildad the Shuhite, 78 Cain, 69 Constantine the Great, 129, 191 Diocletian, 137 Dodge, Wm. E., 146 Domna, Julia, 190, 207 Dorotheus, Professor, 42 Eliezer, 90 Esarhaddon, 34 Fakhreddin, 30 Fatima, 116 Hadrian, 168 Hakim Biamrillah, 11 Hamzeh ibn Ahmed, 11 Helena, St., 179 Heliogabalus, 191n, 207 Herod the Great, 26, 91 Hiram of Tyre, 168, 173, 183 Ibrahim Pasha, 30, 84 Idrisi, 93 Jesup, Morris K., 146 John the Baptist, 121, 123, 215 Josephus, 84, 90 Justinian, 42, 137, 168 Longinus, 135 Louis VII. of France, 91 Mohammed, 12, 93f, 116 Mukadassi, 188 Naaman, 89n, 117, 120 Nicodemus, 26 Nureddin, 91 Odenathus II., 134 Og, king of Bashan, 77 Paul, St., 91, 116f. Pompey, 26 Post, Dr. Geo. E., 168 Rameses II., 26, 34, 79 Rib-addi, 26 Richard Cœur de Lion, 28 Robinson, Edw., 195, 204n Rustum Pasha, 168 Sapor of Persia, 134 Selim, Sultan, 34 Sennacherib, 26, 34 Severus, Septimius, 190, 207n Shalmaneser II., 34 Solomon, 133, 190 Tamerlane, 91, 137 Tancred, 205 Theodosius the Great, 175 Tiglath-pileser III., 34, 91 Titus, 26 Uz, 90 Vahballathus, 134 Valerian, 134 Varius, see _Heliogabalus_ Vespasian, 26 William II. of Germany, 120 William of Tyre, 78 Phallic worship, 11 Pharpar, 89n Pilgrim Route, 114, 122 Protestants, 40 Qadesh, see _Homs, Lake of_ Railways, 60, 72f, 76f, 82, 210 Ras Baalbek, 149-152 Ras esh-Shukkah, 4 Rayak, 67 Saladin, 27, 91, 119f Semakh, 73 Sirocco, 80 Smuggling, 32 Suk Wadi Barada, 69 Sunnin, Mount, 5, 52, 67, 178 Suweida, 78 Syria, II Boundaries, 6 Manners and customs, 18-22 Names, 6 Population, 8 Provinces, 8 Religions, 9-13 Syrian Desert, 7, 95, 129-132, 141 Syrian Protestant College, IV, 42f, 146f Syrians, 16, 22-25 Tadmor, see _Palmyra_ Tell el Amarna Letters, 26 Tell Biseh, 211 Trachonitis, see _Leja_ Transfiguration, the, 67 Tripoli, 8, 178, 201 Uz, Land of, 78 Vilayets of Syria, 8 el-Wesen, 140 Women, position of, 90, 113f Yarmuk Valley, 73-75 Zebedani Valley, 67f Zenobia, Queen, 69, 134-137, 205