A Journey to Damascus Through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petræa, Palestine, and Syria, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1847 |
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... walls , and seldom go without a dinner and a bed . We descended to the 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 ...
... walls , and seldom go without a dinner and a bed . We descended to the 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 ...
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... walls . They profess extreme poverty ; but the riches of the church belie this , and I suspect if the Bedouins knew how much of value these old walls contain , they would risk a great deal to TO DAMASCUS . 13.
... walls . They profess extreme poverty ; but the riches of the church belie this , and I suspect if the Bedouins knew how much of value these old walls contain , they would risk a great deal to TO DAMASCUS . 13.
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Frederick William Robert Stewart Londonderry (4th marquess). walls contain , they would risk a great deal to get at it . The monks feel that theirs is no established tenure , and are always in a defensive position . They have stores of ...
Frederick William Robert Stewart Londonderry (4th marquess). walls contain , they would risk a great deal to get at it . The monks feel that theirs is no established tenure , and are always in a defensive position . They have stores of ...
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... wall . Through this barrier there was a very narrow gorge or defile , so rugged and steep that only one camel could go at a time through the large fragments of stone and rock which encum- bered the pass . The caravan was to pro- ceed up ...
... wall . Through this barrier there was a very narrow gorge or defile , so rugged and steep that only one camel could go at a time through the large fragments of stone and rock which encum- bered the pass . The caravan was to pro- ceed up ...
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... which occa- sionally we diverged into small patches of recent cultivation , intersected by walls and ruins of stone fences of much more skilful construction than Arab hands could have produced . The surface TO DAMASCUS . 71.
... which occa- sionally we diverged into small patches of recent cultivation , intersected by walls and ruins of stone fences of much more skilful construction than Arab hands could have produced . The surface TO DAMASCUS . 71.
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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 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.