Tag: Dan De Quille
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El Yuba Dam
In Chapter 45 of The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain writes about traveling from Damascus to Kafr Hawr (which he calls Jonesborough), and then continuing on the following day to Banias. Twain wrote: “We left Jonesborough very early in the morning, and rode forever and forever and forever, it seemed to me, over parched deserts and…