TRAVELS AMONG THE ARAB TRIBES INHABITING THE COUNTRIES * EAST OF SYRIA AND PALESTINE, INCLUDING A JOURNEY FROM NAZARETH TO THE MOUNTAINS BEYOND THE DEAD SEA, AND FROM THENCE THROUGH THE PLAINS OF THE HAURAN TO BOZRA, DAMASCUS, TRIPOLY, LEBANON, BAALBECK, AND BY THE VALLEY OF THE ORONTES TO SELEUCIA, ANTIOCH, AND ALEPPO. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING A REFUTATION OF CERTAIN UNFOUNDED CALUMNIES INDUSTRIOUSLY CIRCULATED AGAINST THE AUTHOR OF THIS WORK, BY MR. LEWIS BURCKHARDT, MR. WILLIAM JOHN BANKES, AND THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. By J. S. BUCKINGHAM, AUTHOR OF TRAVELS IN PALESTINE AND THE COUNTRIES EAST OF THE JORDAN .' MEMBER OF THE LITERARY SOCIETIES OF BOMBAY AND MADRAS, AND OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1825.