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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... soon expect a complete list of all the villages in Palestine and the territory of Damascus , from the Beyrout press , under the care and revision of Dr. Smith . These will serve as well to guide the traveller in his wanderings as the ...
... soon expect a complete list of all the villages in Palestine and the territory of Damascus , from the Beyrout press , under the care and revision of Dr. Smith . These will serve as well to guide the traveller in his wanderings as the ...
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... soon to see their heads gracing the palace gate . The Pasha dismissed the Druzes in peace ; and he dismissed the Kurds also with an admonition not to perpetrate such acts in future ! The Kurds knew , however , and all the city knew ...
... soon to see their heads gracing the palace gate . The Pasha dismissed the Druzes in peace ; and he dismissed the Kurds also with an admonition not to perpetrate such acts in future ! The Kurds knew , however , and all the city knew ...
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... Soon after sunrise Aiyûb ( Job ) , our guide , appeared , and urged our immediate departure , as the caravan was then starting , and he was afraid of being left behind . My experience of Arab haste in such matters prevented all ...
... Soon after sunrise Aiyûb ( Job ) , our guide , appeared , and urged our immediate departure , as the caravan was then starting , and he was afraid of being left behind . My experience of Arab haste in such matters prevented all ...
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... soon entirely disappear . In a quarter of an hour we reached the plateau on the top of the declivity , and here Mûsa ordered a halt . It appeared that a Druze with some camels , the property of 16 CHAP . X. JOURNEY OVER THE DESERT.
... soon entirely disappear . In a quarter of an hour we reached the plateau on the top of the declivity , and here Mûsa ordered a halt . It appeared that a Druze with some camels , the property of 16 CHAP . X. JOURNEY OVER THE DESERT.
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... to the gloomy aspect of this forbidding region . Night soon closed around us , and , as dark clouds covered the whole heavens , we could not distinguish objects even at the distance of a few yards . CHAP . X. 19 TO THE JEBEL HAURAN .
... to the gloomy aspect of this forbidding region . Night soon closed around us , and , as dark clouds covered the whole heavens , we could not distinguish objects even at the distance of a few yards . CHAP . X. 19 TO THE JEBEL HAURAN .
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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