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 13
... covered with verdure . A few minutes more brought us to the village , situated on the summit of a rocky mound . It bears no resemblance to the villages in the plain , being constructed wholly of black stones instead of sun - dried ...
... covered with verdure . A few minutes more brought us to the village , situated on the summit of a rocky mound . It bears no resemblance to the villages in the plain , being constructed wholly of black stones instead of sun - dried ...
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... covered with shapeless fragments of basalt , which were here and there thrown into heaps , but whether by the hand of man or by nature seemed doubtful . On the west a valley ran up into the centre of Jebel Mâni'a , but its sides were of ...
... covered with shapeless fragments of basalt , which were here and there thrown into heaps , but whether by the hand of man or by nature seemed doubtful . On the west a valley ran up into the centre of Jebel Mâni'a , but its sides were of ...
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... to the gloomy aspect of this forbidding region . Night soon closed around us , and , as dark clouds covered the whole heavens , we could not distinguish objects even at the distance of a few yards . CHAP . X. 19 TO THE JEBEL HAURAN .
... to the gloomy aspect of this forbidding region . Night soon closed around us , and , as dark clouds covered the whole heavens , we could not distinguish objects even at the distance of a few yards . CHAP . X. 19 TO THE JEBEL HAURAN .
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... covered with a thick crust of ashes , smoke , and coffee - grounds . Whether the internal parts were cleaner than the external I had no means of judging , as coffee , when prepared in the Arab style , has the valuable property of ...
... covered with a thick crust of ashes , smoke , and coffee - grounds . Whether the internal parts were cleaner than the external I had no means of judging , as coffee , when prepared in the Arab style , has the valuable property of ...
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... covered with rich Persian carpets , and cushions of embroidered velvet were arranged against the wall , while three immense mankals of blazing charcoal diffused an agreeable heat through the chamber . Our kind host , in introducing us ...
... covered with rich Persian carpets , and cushions of embroidered velvet were arranged against the wall , while three immense mankals of blazing charcoal diffused an agreeable heat through the chamber . Our kind host , in introducing us ...
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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