 | Joseph Nightingale - 1835 - 878 pages
...a prospect agreeable to llii <•>(•. Here nothing of the kind is to be found. Figure to yourself two long chains of mountains, running in a parallel direction from north to south, without break; and without undulations. The eastern chain, called the mountains of Arabia, is the highest ;... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1837 - 432 pages
...south, without breaks and without undulations. The eastern, or Arabian chain, is the highest ; and, when seen at the distance of eight or ten leagues, you would take it to l>ea prodigious perpendicular wall, resembling Mount Jura in its form and azure colour. Not one summit,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 820 pages
...river ; the landscape, however, s by no means grand or prepossessing. Two long chains of mountains run in a parallel direction from north to south, without breaks and without undulations. The eastern or Arabian chain is the highest ; and when seen at the distance of eight or ten leagues, it resembles... | |
 | 1859 - 880 pages
...of the Dead Sea, and of the adjacent valley of the Jordan, in his travels : — " Figure to yourself two long chains of mountains, running in a parallel...the highest. When seen at the distance of eight or tei leagues, you would take it to be a prodigkm perpendicular wall ; not one summit, not tb smallest... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1847 - 592 pages
...present aspect of the Dead Sea and the Jordan, from the pen of M. de Chateaubriand : "Figure to yourself two long chains of mountains running in a parallel...Mountains of Arabia, is the highest ; when seen at a distance of eight or ten leagues, you would take it to be a prodigious perpendicular wall. * * *... | |
| |
Figure to.Yourself two long chains of mountains running in a parallel direction from north to south, without breaks and without undulations. The eastern chain, called the mountains of Arabia, is the highest; when seen at the distance of eight or ten leagues,... 
