A Journey to Damascus Through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petræa, Palestine, and Syria, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1847 |
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... distance . After a good hour's walk , we reached the stone of Moses , which is a piece of granite , not larger than many others that surround it ; on the side nearest the track are several horizontal fissures , about a foot long , one ...
... distance . After a good hour's walk , we reached the stone of Moses , which is a piece of granite , not larger than many others that surround it ; on the side nearest the track are several horizontal fissures , about a foot long , one ...
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... distance , looked like ruined castles . Near these , we pitched our tents , on a wide plain , from whence we could see the moun- tains above Akaba red with the setting sun . I insisted upon having the large tent pitched , much against ...
... distance , looked like ruined castles . Near these , we pitched our tents , on a wide plain , from whence we could see the moun- tains above Akaba red with the setting sun . I insisted upon having the large tent pitched , much against ...
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... distance from our tents , the noise of their conversation is indescribable ; and it is impossible to guess how it will end , for our friends Fiske and Erskine have had no answer . Ten thousand piastres were asked , and they have offered ...
... distance from our tents , the noise of their conversation is indescribable ; and it is impossible to guess how it will end , for our friends Fiske and Erskine have had no answer . Ten thousand piastres were asked , and they have offered ...
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... . On a sudden a shot was fired at a distance . Not a minute elapsed before an Arab of our people ran from the palm - trees , near the town where they were encamped , at full speed along the shore , gun in hand , and TO DAMASCUS . 45.
... . On a sudden a shot was fired at a distance . Not a minute elapsed before an Arab of our people ran from the palm - trees , near the town where they were encamped , at full speed along the shore , gun in hand , and TO DAMASCUS . 45.
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... distance , moved off to the left of the road . Hussein joined them ; there was another movement , and then an Arab suddenly seized the bridle of my dro- medary , and brought him upon his knees ; our friends , also , were at once ...
... distance , moved off to the left of the road . Hussein joined them ; there was another movement , and then an Arab suddenly seized the bridle of my dro- medary , and brought him upon his knees ; our friends , also , were at once ...
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Akaba Alouins appeared Arabs Armenian arrived ascended Baalbec baggage beautiful Bedouins Beirout camels chapel CHAPTER chasm church cliffs colour convent covered crags cultivated Dead Sea defile desert dromedary Edom encamped entered excavations Fellaheen gardens glen goats Hebron hills Holy Horeb horses Howâts Hussein Ibrahim Jehoshaphat Jerusalem JOURNEY TO DAMASCUS July Khasné ladies land Lebanon looked Mehemet Ali Mezeiné monks morning mosque Mount Hor Mount Lebanon Mount of Olives mountain ornaments Oulad Pacha party passed peaks Petra pitched plain pool of Siloam precipices ravines reached rising road rocks rode round ruins sacred sand scene seems seen sepulchres Sheikh side Sinai spot stone summit Taif Allah Tancred temple tent Tiyayah told tombs took Toualeb town track travellers trees tribe valley valley of Jehoshaphat village visited Wady Araba Wady Mousa walls wild winding Zion
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Page 135 - Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter ; for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
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Page 136 - For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land.
Page 135 - And they have built the high places of tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which J commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.