Five Years in Damascus: Including an Account of the History, Topography, and Antiquities of that City : with Travels and Researches in Palmyra, Lebanon, and the Hauran, Volume 2John Murray, 1855 - Damascus (Syria) |
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... note ; while traversing Bible Lands , there- fore , and visiting some of those cities and provinces whose names are among ... notes , and of the rough sketches of Buckingham , had given me some idea of the general features of the country ...
... note ; while traversing Bible Lands , there- fore , and visiting some of those cities and provinces whose names are among ... notes , and of the rough sketches of Buckingham , had given me some idea of the general features of the country ...
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... note and sketch books , formed my whole luggage . Jan. 31st . - Soon after sunrise Aiyûb ( Job ) , our guide , appeared , and urged our immediate departure , as the caravan was then starting , and he was afraid of being left behind . My ...
... note and sketch books , formed my whole luggage . Jan. 31st . - Soon after sunrise Aiyûb ( Job ) , our guide , appeared , and urged our immediate departure , as the caravan was then starting , and he was afraid of being left behind . My ...
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... note - book . I presented our letter of introduction , and the sheikh , after reading it and seeing coffee properly served , left the room . In about half an hour he returned , and invited us to another apartment in the harîm , which ...
... note - book . I presented our letter of introduction , and the sheikh , after reading it and seeing coffee properly served , left the room . In about half an hour he returned , and invited us to another apartment in the harîm , which ...
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... Druze companions to travel any 5 Notitia Antiquæ , pp . 50 , 51 . • Abulfedæ Tab . Syr . p . 97 ; and p . 15 , note 67 ; and Addenda et Corrigenda , p . 97 . longer at an easy pace . The young sheikh Saîd 58 CHAP . XI . THE NORTHERN ...
... Druze companions to travel any 5 Notitia Antiquæ , pp . 50 , 51 . • Abulfedæ Tab . Syr . p . 97 ; and p . 15 , note 67 ; and Addenda et Corrigenda , p . 97 . longer at an easy pace . The young sheikh Saîd 58 CHAP . XI . THE NORTHERN ...
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... note , this date as A.D. 263. It is certainly Erous Cr , but it must be by mere oversight that the A.D. is attached to it , since it is well known that the Christian era was not used till centuries after that period ; and , besides , it ...
... note , this date as A.D. 263. It is certainly Erous Cr , but it must be by mere oversight that the A.D. is attached to it , since it is well known that the Christian era was not used till centuries after that period ; and , besides , it ...
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Abulfeda afterwards ancient Antilibanus appears Arab Argob Baalbek bank basalt Bashan Batanæa Bathanyeh beautiful Bedawîn border Bostra Bozrah building Burckhardt Busrah called caravan castle Christian church columns crossed Damascus declivity Deir Der'a deserted distance door Druze east eastern eastward Edom Edrei extends Fcap feet Gaulanitis Gilead glen Greek inscription half an hour Hamath heaps hills History horses houses inhabitants Jabbok Jebel Haurân Josephus Kenath Kerioth Kunawât Kureiyeh latter Lejah Libanus lofty Mahmûd miles minutes Moab monument mosk mountains Mûsa nearly northern observed passed plain Plates Portrait Post 8vo province ravine reached Riblah ridge Ritter road rocks rode Roman round ruins Salcah Second Edition seen sheikh side sketch slope soil spot stones Sulkhad summit Suweideh Syria tell temple Third Edition towers town Trachonitis Travels in Syria tribe village visited Vols wady walls whole wild Woodcuts Zedad