Excerpt from Voyage en Orient, Vol. 2 La nuit tait venue, mais les nuits de Syrie ne sont qu'un jour bleu tre; tout le monde prenait le frais sur les terrasses, et cette ville, mesure que je la regardais en remontant les collines ext rieures, affectait des airs babyloniens. La lune d coupait de blanches silhouettes sur les escaliers que forment de loin ces maisons qu'on 3 vues dans le jour si hautes et si sombres et dont les t tes des cypr s et des palmiers rompent et l l'uni formit . About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.