Cities of the World: Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect, Volume 3Edwin Hodder Cassell & Company, 1886 |
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Page 23
... hill - side of Zion is three hundred and fifty feet , and that must have been the length of the ancient bridge . It is ... hills of Zion and Olivet , the one most interesting to us , as the road by which Christ entered the Temple , has ...
... hill - side of Zion is three hundred and fifty feet , and that must have been the length of the ancient bridge . It is ... hills of Zion and Olivet , the one most interesting to us , as the road by which Christ entered the Temple , has ...
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... hill is divided into several eminences by low depressions , the highest point , to the north , being 2,723 feet above ... hills nearer Jerusalem . " Three pathways lead , and very probably always led , from Bethany to Jerusalem : one , a ...
... hill is divided into several eminences by low depressions , the highest point , to the north , being 2,723 feet above ... hills nearer Jerusalem . " Three pathways lead , and very probably always led , from Bethany to Jerusalem : one , a ...
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... hills , included in the walls of Servius Tullius , that Rome took the name of the " City of the Seven Hills . " There is scarcely anything in an examination of Rome more striking , scarcely any- thing that better brings home to us the ...
... hills , included in the walls of Servius Tullius , that Rome took the name of the " City of the Seven Hills . " There is scarcely anything in an examination of Rome more striking , scarcely any- thing that better brings home to us the ...
Contents
JERUSALEM | 1 |
BRUSSELS AND THE CITIES OF BELGIUM | 33 |
The Ancient Navigators The Swedish ColonyWilliam Penn the Founder of the CityThe Dreary Morning | 92 |
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