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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... course , rode our own steeds . The beds and other baggage were placed on the backs of camels , and on we swept with the now swelling caravan . These arrangements , simple as they may appear , were not made with such order or despatch as ...
... course , rode our own steeds . The beds and other baggage were placed on the backs of camels , and on we swept with the now swelling caravan . These arrangements , simple as they may appear , were not made with such order or despatch as ...
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... course . Others , pinioned to the ground by the feet of the Arabs , growled savagely , with open mouths , as their loads were shifted or more firmly bound . The men too , with shouts as loud and scarcely less deeply guttural , ran here ...
... course . Others , pinioned to the ground by the feet of the Arabs , growled savagely , with open mouths , as their loads were shifted or more firmly bound . The men too , with shouts as loud and scarcely less deeply guttural , ran here ...
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... course would not be intercepted : but still , whatever might occur , we had sufficient confidence in the strength of our caravan . After about half an hour spent in arranging the loads and the order , the word was at last given to march ...
... course would not be intercepted : but still , whatever might occur , we had sufficient confidence in the strength of our caravan . After about half an hour spent in arranging the loads and the order , the word was at last given to march ...
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... course , confirmed this intelligence ; and on examining this section of the country afterwards from the northern brow of the Jebel Haurân , with a telescope , I was able to trace the line of the wady . The distance of Burâk from the ...
... course , confirmed this intelligence ; and on examining this section of the country afterwards from the northern brow of the Jebel Haurân , with a telescope , I was able to trace the line of the wady . The distance of Burâk from the ...
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... course . We saw a bright light far away in front , which at one moment decreased so as to be almost invisible , and the next shot up into a tall flame . Our companions at first thought it was some party of Arabs watching their flocks ...
... course . We saw a bright light far away in front , which at one moment decreased so as to be almost invisible , and the next shot up into a tall flame . Our companions at first thought it was some party of Arabs watching their flocks ...
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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