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... silent rubbish - heaps covered with lines of squalid streets , which form the
modern city , and the city of David and the Kings ; Moriah crowned with the proud
colonnades of the Temple , linked to Olivet by an immense viaduct , and
spanning ...
... silent rubbish - heaps covered with lines of squalid streets , which form the
modern city , and the city of David and the Kings ; Moriah crowned with the proud
colonnades of the Temple , linked to Olivet by an immense viaduct , and
spanning ...
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... silent rubbish - heaps covered with lines of squalid streets , which form the
modern city , and the city of David and the Kings ; Moriah crowned with the proud
colonnades of the Temple , linked to Olivet by an immense viaduct , and
spanning ...
... silent rubbish - heaps covered with lines of squalid streets , which form the
modern city , and the city of David and the Kings ; Moriah crowned with the proud
colonnades of the Temple , linked to Olivet by an immense viaduct , and
spanning ...
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... silent rubbish - heaps covered with lines of squalid streets , which form the
modern city , and the city of David and the Kings ; Moriah crowned with the proud
colonnades of the Temple , linked to Olivet by an immense viaduct , and
spanning ...
... silent rubbish - heaps covered with lines of squalid streets , which form the
modern city , and the city of David and the Kings ; Moriah crowned with the proud
colonnades of the Temple , linked to Olivet by an immense viaduct , and
spanning ...
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The rent is covered over with a brass slide and a grating , but when these are
pushed aside a cleft is seen about eight inches deep . The chapel adjoining to
Golgotha is where Christ is said to have been nailed to the Cross . It belongs to
the ...
The rent is covered over with a brass slide and a grating , but when these are
pushed aside a cleft is seen about eight inches deep . The chapel adjoining to
Golgotha is where Christ is said to have been nailed to the Cross . It belongs to
the ...
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... 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
round the whole building , upon which are inscribed passages from the Korân .
... 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
round the whole building , upon which are inscribed passages from the Korân .
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| Title | Cities of the world, Volume 3 Cities of the world, Edwin Hodder |
| Author | Edwin Hodder |
| Published | 1881 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2006 |
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