Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1829 |
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... half long , were occasionally seen in the bottom planks ; and when I inquired how the Arabs could think of sleeping with such venomous creatures in the boat ? they told me , when serpents got into a boat all the rats quitted it ; and ...
... half long , were occasionally seen in the bottom planks ; and when I inquired how the Arabs could think of sleeping with such venomous creatures in the boat ? they told me , when serpents got into a boat all the rats quitted it ; and ...
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... window ; and in the course of ten minutes , I have seen it devour half a dozen flies . Its mode of catching them is very singular : the tongue is a thin cartilaginous dart , anchor- THE CHAMELEON- -THE LIZARD . 21 shaped ; this it.
... window ; and in the course of ten minutes , I have seen it devour half a dozen flies . Its mode of catching them is very singular : the tongue is a thin cartilaginous dart , anchor- THE CHAMELEON- -THE LIZARD . 21 shaped ; this it.
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... half : the horns are very little larger than those of a snail . I killed one with the vapour of muriatic acid , for the purpose of extracting the poison : this I found in a small membrane , under the two hollow teeth in the front of the ...
... half : the horns are very little larger than those of a snail . I killed one with the vapour of muriatic acid , for the purpose of extracting the poison : this I found in a small membrane , under the two hollow teeth in the front of the ...
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... Half of this I gave to a dog in a piece of meat ; it produced no sensible effect . I then diluted the remainder , smeared the point of a lancet with it , and wounded the dog in the shoulder this application he only survived three hours ...
... Half of this I gave to a dog in a piece of meat ; it produced no sensible effect . I then diluted the remainder , smeared the point of a lancet with it , and wounded the dog in the shoulder this application he only survived three hours ...
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... half a dozen ragged children were produced as witnesses ; they all pointed at me as the person who decoyed the flock to the river side . The name of Frangy was enough to get a thousand witnesses against a Christian . The thing looked ...
... half a dozen ragged children were produced as witnesses ; they all pointed at me as the person who decoyed the flock to the river side . The name of Frangy was enough to get a thousand witnesses against a Christian . The thing looked ...
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Page 311 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Page 314 - So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
Page 221 - This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating : an omer for every man according to the number of your persons, take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
Page 182 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Page 216 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 301 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
Page 182 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry...
Page 31 - ... by them to a great extent. 447. The ravages of the Locust are often adverted to in the Bible, and the descriptions there given correspond with those of modern travelers. They are spoken of as a " great army," and it is said that " the land before them is as the Garden of Eden, and behind them a desolate wilderness" — a result often witnessed at the present day.
Page 213 - In moving with a whole nation, the march may well be supposed to have occupied three days; and the bitter well at Marah, which was sweetened by Moses, corresponds exactly with that of Howara. This is the usual route to Mount Sinai; and was probably, therefore, that which the Israelites took on their escape from Egypt ; provided it be admitted that they crossed the sea near Suez, as Niebuhr, with good reason, conjectures. There is no other road of three days...
Page 248 - ... rumbling about my bed ; but I regarded him nothing at all. When afterwards I began to slumber, then he kept such a racket and rumbling upon the chamber stairs, as if many emptie hogsheads and barrels had been tumbled down...