Lebanon (i.e. “the White Mountain”), a range on the northern border of Palestine, which rises to a height of 10,000 ft., and is divided into two by a valley, the ancient Coele-Syria, which the Leontes and Orontes water, the eastern range being called Anti-Lebanon.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Leathes, Stanley * Le Brun, Charles