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CHAP. XIX.]
TRIPOLI.
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to the sea, and includes the district of El Kura, to the south
ward of Tripoli.
This city, now Tarabolus-el-shaan and the capital of the City of Tripoli.
Pashalik, has continued to flourish since the time of Edrisi, 1
and it exemplifies the eastern principle of leaving things as
they happen to be found; for it has now, as it had in ancient
times, three separate divisions, viz., the Marina, the Town,
and the Fortress, which probably represent the sites of the
triple town once occupied by the Tyrians, the Sidonians, and
the Aradians : 2 at a later period it was the most important city
of Phoenicia. 3
The first contains the stores and the dwellings of ship- Bay and an-
wrights, labourers, and others connected with trade. The chorage -
buildings in this portion are mean, but prettily situated round
a bay and an anchorage, which is but imperfectly sheltered
by a string of rocky islets, defended by seven square Saracenic
towers at equal distances around. About a mile and a half
to the eastward, at the base of a triangular plain, is the second
and principal portion of the town; this part, which is perhaps
the best built in Syria, stretches north and south along the
western slope of a hill enclosing one side of Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Kadisha,
and is picturesquely situated amidst luxuriant groves of orange,
lemon, and mulberry trees, interspersed with the dark green
of the spiral cypress.
Tripoli contains good shops, an excellent bazar, several Population,
large mosques, baths, khans, and about 2000 houses, many of
which have gothic arcades below, and are covered either with
small cupolas, or the ordinary terraced roof, commanding
generally a view of the sea. Being intersected by the stream,
or rather canal of Nahr Abu AM, water is easily conveyed by
means of conduits in every direction; so that few houses are
without the luxury of a fountain in the court, and not unfre-
quently also jets d'eau in the reception rooms. There is an
extensive soap manufactory, and a population of about 3000
Greek catholics, 1000 Maronites, and nearly 14,000 Turks.
1 P. 356, tome V., Recueil de Voyages et M&noires, &c. Paris, 1836.
8 Plin., lib. V., c. xx.; Strabo, lib. XVL, p. 153.
8 Diod. Sic., lib. XVI., p. 439.