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... steps lead down to a large open court - yard , paved with yellowish slabs of time ; and the sight which meets the eye , if the season be one of any great festival , is ecrions in the extreme . A crowd f people , dressed in all the ...
... steps lead down to a large open court - yard , paved with yellowish slabs of time ; and the sight which meets the eye , if the season be one of any great festival , is ecrions in the extreme . A crowd f people , dressed in all the ...
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... step brings us to some place of legendary or historical interest . A few steps to the west of the Sepulchre is the chapel of the Copts , held by them ever since the sixteenth century , but very unpretentious in com- parison with some of ...
... step brings us to some place of legendary or historical interest . A few steps to the west of the Sepulchre is the chapel of the Copts , held by them ever since the sixteenth century , but very unpretentious in com- parison with some of ...
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... steps , is the Dome of the Rock , an octagonal building , each of the eight sides being sixty - eight feet in length , covered with richly - coloured porcelain tiles , in which blue predominates ; and above , a frieze of tiles running ...
... steps , is the Dome of the Rock , an octagonal building , each of the eight sides being sixty - eight feet in length , covered with richly - coloured porcelain tiles , in which blue predominates ; and above , a frieze of tiles running ...
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... steps lead down to a large , javed with yellowish slabs of stone ; and the sight which meets the A 4 one of any great festival , is curious in the extreme . A crowd of the colours of the rainbow , and composed of almost every ...
... steps lead down to a large , javed with yellowish slabs of stone ; and the sight which meets the A 4 one of any great festival , is curious in the extreme . A crowd of the colours of the rainbow , and composed of almost every ...
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... step brings us to some place of legendary or historical interest . A few steps to the west of the Sepulchre is the chapel of the Copts , held by them ever since the sixteenth century , but very unpretentious in com- parison with some of ...
... step brings us to some place of legendary or historical interest . A few steps to the west of the Sepulchre is the chapel of the Copts , held by them ever since the sixteenth century , but very unpretentious in com- parison with some of ...
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