CÆSAREA-PHILIPPI, Bâniâs.—This ancient city occupies one of the most picturesque sites in Syria. A broad terrace in the mountain side looks out over the plain of Hûleh westward to the castellated heights of Hunîn. Behind it rises in bold rugged peaks the southern ridge of Hermon, wooded to the summit. Two sublime ravines, one to the N. and one to the S., open up the ridge, having between them an isolated cone more than 1000 ft. in height, and crowned by the noble ruins of the castle of Subeibeh. On the terrace at the base of this cone lie!the ruins of Cæsarea-Philippi.

SAFED is situated on an isolated peak, which rises steeply from the southern brow of the mountain-range. A deep glen sweeps round its northern and western sides, and a shallower one, after skirting the eastern side, falls into the former a few miles to the S. Beyond these, on the N.E., N., and W. are higher hills, but on the S. the view is unimpeded. The old castle crowns the peak; the Jewish quarter of the town clings to the steep western side considerably below the summit, the rows of houses looking at a distance like stairs.