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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... Plain of Auranitis - Tell Kuleib Visit to ' Ary - Druze hospitality - Errors in Burckhardt's Approach to BOZRAH Ancient cities Plan and description of the Beautiful theatre Boheira - - map The Kings of Ghussân - - Rhose of the Peutinger ...
... Plain of Auranitis - Tell Kuleib Visit to ' Ary - Druze hospitality - Errors in Burckhardt's Approach to BOZRAH Ancient cities Plan and description of the Beautiful theatre Boheira - - map The Kings of Ghussân - - Rhose of the Peutinger ...
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... plain in a south - easterly direction , amid vast droves of camels . On each side of the road are exten- sive olive plantations , with intervening open fields of wheat and barley . After proceeding about a mile , the plain upon our ...
... plain in a south - easterly direction , amid vast droves of camels . On each side of the road are exten- sive olive plantations , with intervening open fields of wheat and barley . After proceeding about a mile , the plain upon our ...
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... plain . At this place we had expected the caravan to form in regular order ; but we 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 ...
... plain . At this place we had expected the caravan to form in regular order ; but we 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 ...
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... plain shut it out from our view . Ou ascending the rising ground we looked again for it , but it was nowhere to be seen : we examined if any unevenness of the ground could still hide it ; but no ! it had vanished ! The whole had been an ...
... plain shut it out from our view . Ou ascending the rising ground we looked again for it , but it was nowhere to be seen : we examined if any unevenness of the ground could still hide it ; but no ! it had vanished ! The whole had been an ...
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... plain , being constructed wholly of black stones instead of sun - dried bricks . The situation is fine , -a rich plain , watered by the ' Awaj , extends away to the east , but the total absence of trees , orchards , and gardens shows ...
... plain , being constructed wholly of black stones instead of sun - dried bricks . The situation is fine , -a rich plain , watered by the ' Awaj , extends away to the east , but the total absence of trees , orchards , and gardens shows ...
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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