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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... whole . It was amusing to see him seizing the animals he wished to hire , dragging their owners from their backs , and con- tending long and loudly about the disposition of the saddle - bags , abeihs , and numerous et ceteras , which ...
... whole . It was amusing to see him seizing the animals he wished to hire , dragging their owners from their backs , and con- tending long and loudly about the disposition of the saddle - bags , abeihs , and numerous et ceteras , which ...
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... whole 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 ...
... whole 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 ...
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... whole had been an optical delusion , strange as it was beautiful . We now skirted the eastern base of Jebel el - Aswad , and I observed an ancient canal running along the lower slopes of the hills on the right . It had evidently been ...
... whole had been an optical delusion , strange as it was beautiful . We now skirted the eastern base of Jebel el - Aswad , and I observed an ancient canal running along the lower slopes of the hills on the right . It had evidently been ...
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... whole region westward and northward of this line is a soft , white , cretaceous limestone , abounding with fossils ; while the district southward and eastward , as far as I have travelled , is one unbroken field of trap- rock . In Jebel ...
... whole region westward and northward of this line is a soft , white , cretaceous limestone , abounding with fossils ; while the district southward and eastward , as far as I have travelled , is one unbroken field of trap- rock . In Jebel ...
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... whole proceeded in a long column generally three deep . My horse becoming impatient , I rode to the front , where I was soon joined by my companions and by a Christian called Mûsa , who appeared to take the leader- ship . Mûsa was an ...
... whole proceeded in a long column generally three deep . My horse becoming impatient , I rode to the front , where I was soon joined by my companions and by a Christian called Mûsa , who appeared to take the leader- ship . Mûsa was an ...
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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