A Journey to Damascus Through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petræa, Palestine, and Syria, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1847 |
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... Mountain of St. Cathe- rine - Horeb and Er Rahab - Feuds of the Arabs - Defile of El - Ain CHAPTER XV . Akaba - The Hadji Road to Mecca - Murder of Sheikh Suleiman by the Mezeiné tribe CHAPTER XVI . Sheikh of the Alouins and his Son ...
... Mountain of St. Cathe- rine - Horeb and Er Rahab - Feuds of the Arabs - Defile of El - Ain CHAPTER XV . Akaba - The Hadji Road to Mecca - Murder of Sheikh Suleiman by the Mezeiné tribe CHAPTER XVI . Sheikh of the Alouins and his Son ...
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... (4th marquess). DIARY OF A JOURNEY TO DAMASCUS . CHAPTER XIV . Ascent of Mount Sinai - Mountain of St. Catherine- Horeb and Er Rahab - Feuds of the Arabs - Defile of El - Ain . VOL . II . B CHAPTER XIV . MAY 25th . - Early this morning.
... (4th marquess). DIARY OF A JOURNEY TO DAMASCUS . CHAPTER XIV . Ascent of Mount Sinai - Mountain of St. Catherine- Horeb and Er Rahab - Feuds of the Arabs - Defile of El - Ain . VOL . II . B CHAPTER XIV . MAY 25th . - Early this morning.
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... mountain of Gebel Mousa , or Sinai . The pass lies through a chasm at the back of the convent . We had a host of Be- douins , who carried up our carpets and pro- visions , and two Greek servants of the Superior as Cicerones . The ascent ...
... mountain of Gebel Mousa , or Sinai . The pass lies through a chasm at the back of the convent . We had a host of Be- douins , who carried up our carpets and pro- visions , and two Greek servants of the Superior as Cicerones . The ascent ...
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... mountain is more imposing when seen from below , than from its more elevated portions . The path , or track , which leads to it from the chapel of Mount Sinai , after descending that part of the mountain as far as the cypress tree ...
... mountain is more imposing when seen from below , than from its more elevated portions . The path , or track , which leads to it from the chapel of Mount Sinai , after descending that part of the mountain as far as the cypress tree ...
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... mountain wells are as clear and sweet as ever - though the desert is still wrapt in its own eternal and magnificent repose , no mass is said , nor are beads told upon the hill side , or in the secret valleys and recesses of Sinai or ...
... mountain wells are as clear and sweet as ever - though the desert is still wrapt in its own eternal and magnificent repose , no mass is said , nor are beads told upon the hill side , or in the secret valleys and recesses of Sinai or ...
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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.