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
... nearly a 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 ...
... nearly a 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 ...
Page 13
... nearly east and west . At the former place the boundary - line turns nearly south- west till it meets the ' Awaj , which then forms the dividing line to S'as'a , and westward to near the mouth of Wady Beit Jenn . The whole region ...
... nearly east and west . At the former place the boundary - line turns nearly south- west till it meets the ' Awaj , which then forms the dividing line to S'as'a , and westward to near the mouth of Wady Beit Jenn . The whole region ...
Page 16
... nearly due south over a fertile plain , but altogether un- cultivated . At 2-10 , seeing a ruin on the top of a tell about half a mile on the left , we galloped up to it , and discovered it to be the remains of a comparatively modern ...
... nearly due south over a fertile plain , but altogether un- cultivated . At 2-10 , seeing a ruin on the top of a tell about half a mile on the left , we galloped up to it , and discovered it to be the remains of a comparatively modern ...
Page 18
... nearly due south , descending a gentle but rugged and bleak slope , and in half an hour reached the side of a little plain with a deep alluvial soil , surrounded on all sides , except the south , by stony declivities . The great plain ...
... nearly due south , descending a gentle but rugged and bleak slope , and in half an hour reached the side of a little plain with a deep alluvial soil , surrounded on all sides , except the south , by stony declivities . The great plain ...
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... nearly as I could the voice of Mûsa . In some eight or ten minutes I reached a spot where my horse came to a dead stand and refused to proceed . I urged and spurred him , but in vain . At last I got down to examine the nature of the ...
... nearly as I could the voice of Mûsa . In some eight or ten minutes I reached a spot where my horse came to a dead stand and refused to proceed . I urged and spurred him , but in vain . At last I got down to examine the nature of the ...
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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