ABSTRACT
I t is a very peaceful scene, the ruins stand among quiet country far from noisy towns; the Circassian village on the left bank of the river is too far from the heart of the old town to interfere with its noble peace. There is none of the bustle and clamour of Amman round the ruins of Philadelphia; J el\ash is a dead city, or perhaps a sleeping city dreaming of the past. It is absorbed in the past with no thought of the present, because it has remained a fossilized Roman town, with no additions of a later age to disturb the harmony of the whole.
