The Abana river, showing a dam, a platform which cantilevers out above the river and a fence of saplings. The photograph is in a book with a typed description. The description: "(I. Chron., xviii:5-6.

There would be no Damascus were it not for the Abana river. The stream breaks through a gorge in the Lebanon mountains a few miles above the city, and at once begins a warfare with the desert. For 25 ...