Identifier: holylandsyria00carp (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and Syria
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel Syria -- Description and travel
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Storks build their nests in the palaces of Kphesus and the peasants fencetheir fields with chunks of marble from its once magnificent temples
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There is a great rustling as the silkworms attack their breakfast ufmulberry leaves. Every year representatives of the silk industr\- in theLebanon go abroad to get worms for breeding, as those bred in thatregion do not la\ healthy eggs AMERICAN LEAVEN IN THE NEAR EAST The tuition is nominal. For the poorest schools it isonly about one dollar a term in money, and the ordinaryrate is about ten dollars a year. The cost of the educa-tion varies with the taste of the students. These are ofall classes from the sons of the poorest fellah to the heirof the highest pasha or richest merchant. There arethree kinds of accommodations, the cost of which rangesfrom thirty-five dollars a year upward. The wealthyEgyptian boy can have his own room, or groups can livefour in a room. He can eat at the best table, or he canget cheaper board with meat three or four times a week.On the other hand, he can work his way through college,furnishing his own food, buying vegetables and fish atvery low cost. Many

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