The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy Land |
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195 206 218 238 SOUTHERN PALESTINE . XIV . Tyre to Kanah , XV . Tibnin --
Hunin , XVI . Hunin - Hûleh - Banias , VII . Lake Phiala - Castle of Banias , XVIII .
Tell el Kady- ( Dan ) – Plain of the Hûleh , XIX . Kudes , Safed - Kefi Bur'iam , SX .
195 206 218 238 SOUTHERN PALESTINE . XIV . Tyre to Kanah , XV . Tibnin --
Hunin , XVI . Hunin - Hûleh - Banias , VII . Lake Phiala - Castle of Banias , XVIII .
Tell el Kady- ( Dan ) – Plain of the Hûleh , XIX . Kudes , Safed - Kefi Bur'iam , SX .
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Natural enongh , and very appropriate . The first inquiry of a sensible traveller in
a strange land will have reference to the means of locomotion . As to your
question , however , the natives will tell you that carriage - roads cannot be made
in ...
Natural enongh , and very appropriate . The first inquiry of a sensible traveller in
a strange land will have reference to the means of locomotion . As to your
question , however , the natives will tell you that carriage - roads cannot be made
in ...
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Some tell us that in the long past ages , a monster of the wolf species was
chained by some god or demon : it the river''s mouth , which , when lashed to fury
by the storms , awoke the echoes of far - distant Cyprus with his bark . . . . .
Another ...
Some tell us that in the long past ages , a monster of the wolf species was
chained by some god or demon : it the river''s mouth , which , when lashed to fury
by the storms , awoke the echoes of far - distant Cyprus with his bark . . . . .
Another ...
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But here we must leave our pleasant grove for this singular sea of sand , Sea of
which rolls quite back to the gardens of Beirût . Geologists tell us that this stand .
sand has travelled long and far before it reached its present resting - place ;that ...
But here we must leave our pleasant grove for this singular sea of sand , Sea of
which rolls quite back to the gardens of Beirût . Geologists tell us that this stand .
sand has travelled long and far before it reached its present resting - place ;that ...
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This broken tower , crowning the top of a half - natural , half - artificial mound , the
guide - books will tell you , is one of those telegraphic beacons which St. Helen
built along the road from Jerusalem to Constantinople , to convey to her royal ...
This broken tower , crowning the top of a half - natural , half - artificial mound , the
guide - books will tell you , is one of those telegraphic beacons which St. Helen
built along the road from Jerusalem to Constantinople , to convey to her royal ...
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| Title | The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy Land |
| Author | William McClure Thomson |
| Publisher | T. Nelson, 1869 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 21 Jan 2020 |
| Length | 718 pages |
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