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 2Murray, 1855 - 372 pages |
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... Beautiful mountain scenery - Visit to Splendid ruins A Druze schoolmaster Kunawât , ΚΕΝΑΤΗ ― Character of the Bedawîn - Description of Kunawât - · Historical • p . 46-115 notices Date of principal buildings - CHAPTER XII . - FROM ...
... Beautiful mountain scenery - Visit to Splendid ruins A Druze schoolmaster Kunawât , ΚΕΝΑΤΗ ― Character of the Bedawîn - Description of Kunawât - · Historical • p . 46-115 notices Date of principal buildings - CHAPTER XII . - FROM ...
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... Beautiful theatre - the Monk and Mohammed the Prophet - Boheira Page 116-159 HISTORY OF BOZRAH- The Bozrah of Moab distinct from that of Edom - The - ancient gigantic inhabitants The Bostrian era 159-169 CHAPTER XIII . BUSRAH TO SULKHAD ...
... Beautiful theatre - the Monk and Mohammed the Prophet - Boheira Page 116-159 HISTORY OF BOZRAH- The Bozrah of Moab distinct from that of Edom - The - ancient gigantic inhabitants The Bostrian era 159-169 CHAPTER XIII . BUSRAH TO SULKHAD ...
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... the subterranean canals described in the last chapter . A beautiful mirage now relieved the bare monotony of the plain before us . The whole expanse seemed a vast lake , and along the base of CHAP . X. 11 TO THE JEBEL HAURAN .
... the subterranean canals described in the last chapter . A beautiful mirage now relieved the bare monotony of the plain before us . The whole expanse seemed a vast lake , and along the base of CHAP . X. 11 TO THE JEBEL HAURAN .
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... 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 intended to bring water from Baweidah to irrigate the ...
... 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 intended to bring water from Baweidah to irrigate the ...
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... Beautiful mountain scenery - Visit to Kunawât , KENATH - Splen- did ruins- A Druze schoolmaster - Character of the Bedawîn- Description of Kunawât — Historical notices - Date of principal buildings . — February 2nd . - THIS morning ...
... Beautiful mountain scenery - Visit to Kunawât , KENATH - Splen- did ruins- A Druze schoolmaster - Character of the Bedawîn- Description of Kunawât — Historical notices - Date of principal buildings . — February 2nd . - THIS morning ...
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Abulfeda afterwards ancient Antilibanus appears Arab Argob Baalbek bank Barnett basalt Bashan Batanæa Bathanyeh beautiful Bedawîn beside border Bostra Bozrah building Burâk Burckhardt Busrah called Canatha castle Christian columns crossed Damascus declivity Deir Der'a deserted distance door Druzes east eastern eastward Edhr'a Edom Edrei erected extends Fcap feet Gaulanitis Gilead glen Greek inscription half an hour heaps Hebrân hills Hît horses inhabitants Jabbok Jebel Haurân Kenath Kerioth Kunawât Kureiyeh Lejah Libanus lofty Mahmûd Manasseh miles minutes Moab monument mosk mountains Mûsa nearly northern observed passed plain Post 8vo province ravine reached Reland Riblah ridge Ritter road rocks rocky rode Roman round rugged ruins Salcah Second Edition seen sheikh sheikh's house Shuhba side slope soil southern spot stones Sulkhad summit Suweideh Syria tell temple town Trachonitis Travels in Syria tribe village visited Vols wady walls whole wild Woodcuts