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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Page 11
... third of the village had left their homes and gone to another place , a day's journey farther east . Aiyûb having arrived , and having provided a supply of barley for our horses , we mounted again at 12 o'clock . Eastward from Kabr es ...
... third of the village had left their homes and gone to another place , a day's journey farther east . Aiyûb having arrived , and having provided a supply of barley for our horses , we mounted again at 12 o'clock . Eastward from Kabr es ...
Page 23
... third , to which there was a descent by a flight of stone stairs ; it was a spacious hall , equal in breadth to the other two , and some 25 feet long by 20 high . A fine semicircular arch spanned it in the centre length- wise ...
... third , to which there was a descent by a flight of stone stairs ; it was a spacious hall , equal in breadth to the other two , and some 25 feet long by 20 high . A fine semicircular arch spanned it in the centre length- wise ...
Page 43
... third relay the pyramid of rice soon disappeared ; the bones of sheep and fowls were stripped of every vestige of flesh ; and the soup , burghul , and pillau were thrown into one huge dish and speedily devoured . But enough of a Druze ...
... third relay the pyramid of rice soon disappeared ; the bones of sheep and fowls were stripped of every vestige of flesh ; and the soup , burghul , and pillau were thrown into one huge dish and speedily devoured . But enough of a Druze ...
Page 50
... third is from beside a door in the building called the church : - 3 . ΙΔΡΥΣ ΦΑΙΔΡΟΝ ΔΕΜΟ ΣΕΕΙΘΗΝΩΝ ΚAICAPHION ΕΚΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΗ ΣΥΝ ΚΛΕΟΣΑΦΘΙ ΤΟΝΑ On the east side of the village , on a large stone , lying beside the foundation of a small ...
... third is from beside a door in the building called the church : - 3 . ΙΔΡΥΣ ΦΑΙΔΡΟΝ ΔΕΜΟ ΣΕΕΙΘΗΝΩΝ ΚAICAPHION ΕΚΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΗ ΣΥΝ ΚΛΕΟΣΑΦΘΙ ΤΟΝΑ On the east side of the village , on a large stone , lying beside the foundation of a small ...
Page 149
... third Cyrenian Legion , and on another is , apparently , the name of an archbishop . A few families now reside within the walls of the castle ; and we were informed that during the spring season all the inhabitants of the place gather ...
... third Cyrenian Legion , and on another is , apparently , the name of an archbishop . A few families now reside within the walls of the castle ; and we were informed that during the spring season all the inhabitants of the place gather ...
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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