The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of The Holy LandT. Nelson & Sons, 1877 - 718 pages |
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Page 32
... built after this fashion - streets eight feet wide , houses sixty feet high , with dead stone walls without ornament or relief of any kind ? They are sad and sombre at best , and must be particularly so at night . Already the shades of ...
... built after this fashion - streets eight feet wide , houses sixty feet high , with dead stone walls without ornament or relief of any kind ? They are sad and sombre at best , and must be particularly so at night . Already the shades of ...
Page 35
... gardens , and en- tombed beneath the rubbish of the ancient city . The number of large columns of both grey and red granite built into the quay is surprising ; but a far greater PART 1 . Ruins of columns . Theatres . Planting.
... gardens , and en- tombed beneath the rubbish of the ancient city . The number of large columns of both grey and red granite built into the quay is surprising ; but a far greater PART 1 . Ruins of columns . Theatres . Planting.
Page 36
... built a break - water entirely of these columns , fished up from the floor of the harbour . The unparalleled storm at the close of 1840 overturned this wall of columns , and spread them out again where they had been before . Probably ...
... built a break - water entirely of these columns , fished up from the floor of the harbour . The unparalleled storm at the close of 1840 overturned this wall of columns , and spread them out again where they had been before . Probably ...
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... built of well - cut stone - altogether a very imposing structure . Though carried over the river at so great an elevation , the canal meets , on the Beirût or west side , with perpendicular cliffs , and passes directly through them by a ...
... built of well - cut stone - altogether a very imposing structure . Though carried over the river at so great an elevation , the canal meets , on the Beirût or west side , with perpendicular cliffs , and passes directly through them by a ...
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... built along the road from Jerusalem to Constantinople , to convey to her royal son the very first tidings of the discovery of the true cross , for which she was then ransacking the rub- bish of the Holy City . You may accept that , or ...
... built along the road from Jerusalem to Constantinople , to convey to her royal son the very first tidings of the discovery of the true cross , for which she was then ransacking the rub- bish of the Holy City . You may accept that , or ...
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