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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... village of Hît , in the Jebel Haurân . He informed us that a large caravan was to leave the city on Monday for his native village , taking the direct road by Nejha , and along the eastern border of the Lejah . This was the route which ...
... village of Hît , in the Jebel Haurân . He informed us that a large caravan was to leave the city on Monday for his native village , taking the direct road by Nejha , and along the eastern border of the Lejah . This was the route which ...
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... village of Baweidah , farther to the east , sur- rounded with its gardens , appeared like an island at the foot of the hills . In twenty - five minutes we passed Yelda , close upon the left , containing a few ruins , consisting of ...
... village of Baweidah , farther to the east , sur- rounded with its gardens , appeared like an island at the foot of the hills . In twenty - five minutes we passed Yelda , close upon the left , containing a few ruins , consisting of ...
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... village was fast going to ruin . The increasing exactions of the Bedawîn , and intestine feuds , are yearly diminishing the number of its inhabitants . Only a short time previously , he stated , nearly a third of the village had left ...
... village was fast going to ruin . The increasing exactions of the Bedawîn , and intestine feuds , are yearly diminishing the number of its inhabitants . Only a short time previously , he stated , nearly a third of the village had left ...
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... village of Nejha . The ground along the base of this range is thickly strewn with boulders and small fragments of basalt , and the rock itself crops up over the soil in many places . The hills and the whole valley of the ' Awaj , from ...
... village of Nejha . The ground along the base of this range is thickly strewn with boulders and small fragments of basalt , and the rock itself crops up over the soil in many places . The hills and the whole valley of the ' Awaj , from ...
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... 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 bricks . The situation is fine , -a rich plain , watered by 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 bricks . The situation is fine , -a rich plain , watered by 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