A Journey to Damascus Through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petræa, Palestine, and Syria, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1847 |
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... Plains of Mamre -Edroua CHAPTER XIX . Bethlehem - The Convent , and its different Re- ligious Communities - Prospect of Jerusalem . -Armenian Convent - Valley of Jehoshaphat -The Great Mosque - The Convent Church -Protestant ...
... Plains of Mamre -Edroua CHAPTER XIX . Bethlehem - The Convent , and its different Re- ligious Communities - Prospect of Jerusalem . -Armenian Convent - Valley of Jehoshaphat -The Great Mosque - The Convent Church -Protestant ...
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Frederick William Robert Stewart Londonderry (4th marquess). CHAPTER XXII . Plains of Mamre - Sheikh of the Jellaheen- Kurmul - Ruins of Kurnub - Wady Araba- Mount Hor - Aaron's Tomb CHAPTER XXIII . Wady Mousa - Petra - The Khasné ...
Frederick William Robert Stewart Londonderry (4th marquess). CHAPTER XXII . Plains of Mamre - Sheikh of the Jellaheen- Kurmul - Ruins of Kurnub - Wady Araba- Mount Hor - Aaron's Tomb CHAPTER XXIII . Wady Mousa - Petra - The Khasné ...
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... plain of Er Rahab , and countless hosts might be gathered beneath it . There is no question but that it directly overlooks the largest space in Sinai , without any inter- vening rocks or peaks . Whether from this fact alone the monkish ...
... plain of Er Rahab , and countless hosts might be gathered beneath it . There is no question but that it directly overlooks the largest space in Sinai , without any inter- vening rocks or peaks . Whether from this fact alone the monkish ...
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... plain by the long and steep defile of Sheraybe , one of the ra- vines running down the side of Horeb , and reached the convent at nightfall . May 26th . - To - day we proceeded up the valley towards the plain of Er Rahab , and , turning ...
... plain by the long and steep defile of Sheraybe , one of the ra- vines running down the side of Horeb , and reached the convent at nightfall . May 26th . - To - day we proceeded up the valley towards the plain of Er Rahab , and , turning ...
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... , Er Rahab , and a thousand other hills and plains lay spread out before our feet . In a small chapel on the peak , is an excavation in the rock , where the bones of Santa Catherina were found . The legend 8 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
... , Er Rahab , and a thousand other hills and plains lay spread out before our feet . In a small chapel on the peak , is an excavation in the rock , where the bones of Santa Catherina were found . The legend 8 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
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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.
Page 309 - OVERLAND JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD, DURING THE YEARS 1841 AND 1842, BY SIR GEORGE SIMPSON, GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY'S TERRITORIES. In one very neat crown octavo volume, rich extra crimson cloth, or in two parts, paper, price 75 cents each.
Page 309 - It contains a mass of every kind of historical matter of interest, which industry and research could collect. We have derived much entertainment and instruction from the work.
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.