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3 Had attendants - = Some on horseback and some on foot - they make their way northward - Some anonymous poet has pictured the scene thus: "Who yonder rides from Salems gate With scornful Eye and lordly state as bent on distant prey? Horsemen, and footmen in his train, He courses down to Jordans' plain, And northward leads the way, By Basan's hill and Haurans Sand, To Trachon's wild and savage land. The noonday sun is towering high, No summer Cloud obscures the sky, But all is bright and clear. And yonder doth Damascus rise, Amid the waste a Paradise, The pilgrims heart to cheer. Up, Nazarene! Arise and fly! The desolator Saul is nigh. [Anon] = Saul & his companions in due time reach the last day of their journey. They come in Sight of Damascus - One half mile from its gates - The unclear is before them. = Damascus - Built of White Stone - Engirdled with green Orchards - Called the "Eye of the East" - described as "a