Blūdān

 

Blūdān has been selected, on account of the excellence of its water and the salubrity of its air, as the summer quarters of the Damascus Mission. Mr. Wood, her majesty's consul, also spends the summer months in this village, and others of the European residents occasionally join our little circle. The village contains about 500 inhabitants, two-thirds of whom are Christians of the Greek Church, and the rest Muslims. The elevation is, according to barometrical measurement, 4524 feet above the sea. During the hottest days of summer the thermometer seldom rises above 80° Fahr., and the nights are almost always cool and pleasant.

Text: Josias Leslie Porter. Five Years in Damascus Volume I (p. 280). 

Photo: André Geiger. Syrie et Liban 1932 (p. 167).