Ballouh Baatura, or The Three Bridges Chasm.
..... ....Glancing
both right and left, one sees nothing, nothing to indicate that one has only
to go down for some five minutes into the valley below on the left to find
oneself stopped, with bated breath, before the fantastic panorama presenting
itself to one’s eyes: three natural bridges, rising one above the other
over a height of one hundred metres and overhanging the enormous mouth of
a chasm plunging 250 metres deep into the bowels of Mount Lebanon! During
the months of March and April, when the snows are melting, one sees a mighty
100-metre cascade which thunders and roars behind the three bridges before
being swallowed up in the earth.
The cave was explored for the first time in 1962, by Lebanese speleologists
or potholers, who halted 250 metres down at the level of a lake in a great
terminal hall. In 1988 a test with florescent dye showed that the waters that
disappeared in this gulf emerged at the spring of Dalleh in Mgharet al-Ghaouaghir,
level with Kfar Hilda (Bsetine al-Assi).....
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Decree
N. 2385 of 17/1/1924 as amended by law N. 76 of 3/4/1999 ( articles 2, 5, 15,
49 and 85 ) lays down as follows:
The author of a literary or artistic work, by the very fact of authorship, has
absolute right of ownership over the work, without obligation of recourse to
formal procedures . The author will himself enjoy the benefit of exploitation
of his work, and he possesses exclusive rights of publication and of the reproduction
under any form whatsoever. Whether the work in question comes under the public
domain or not those persons will be liable to imprisonment for a period of one
to three years and to fine of between five and fifty million Lebanese pounds,
or to either one of these penalties, who
1-will
have appended or caused to be appended a usurped name on a literary or artistic
work;
2-will have fraudulently imitated the signature or trademark adopted by an author,
with a view to deceiving the buyer;
3-will have counterfeited a literary or artistic work;
4-or will have knowingly sold, received, or put on sale or into circulation
a work which is counterfeit or signed with a forged signature.
The punishment will be increased in the event of repetition.