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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... observe and accurately to note ; while traversing Bible Lands , there- fore , and visiting some of those cities and provinces whose names are among the earliest found in Scripture history , it will not be thought strange that I should ...
... observe and accurately to note ; while traversing Bible Lands , there- fore , and visiting some of those cities and provinces whose names are among the earliest found in Scripture history , it will not be thought strange that I should ...
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... observed each company as it came up passing on across the plain . We dismounted to await the arrival of Aiyûb and his camels . Observing a respectably dressed Muslem , accompanied by a Bedawy in the costume of Ageil , standing near us ...
... observed each company as it came up passing on across the plain . We dismounted to await the arrival of Aiyûb and his camels . Observing a respectably dressed Muslem , accompanied by a Bedawy in the costume of Ageil , standing near us ...
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... observe the camp of the Turkish army occupying the very same spot where I had seen it from Tell Abu Yazîd some three ... observed an ancient canal running along the lower slopes of the hills on the right . It had evidently been intended ...
... observe the camp of the Turkish army occupying the very same spot where I had seen it from Tell Abu Yazîd some three ... observed an ancient canal running along the lower slopes of the hills on the right . It had evidently been intended ...
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... observation , either the extent of this town or the general character of its buildings ; but the men now sitting around us in this strange apartment were well acquainted with it , and they said that the houses were all of one kind , and ...
... observation , either the extent of this town or the general character of its buildings ; but the men now sitting around us in this strange apartment were well acquainted with it , and they said that the houses were all of one kind , and ...
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... observed in many places deep cuttings in the solid rock . A few minutes after leaving the ruins we rode for some distance alongside an ancient aqueduct , constructed to conduct the winter stream into the great cisterns of the town , for ...
... observed in many places deep cuttings in the solid rock . A few minutes after leaving the ruins we rode for some distance alongside an ancient aqueduct , constructed to conduct the winter stream into the great cisterns of the town , for ...
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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