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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... - 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 KUNAWAT TO BUSRAH . Tower a 2.
... - 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 KUNAWAT TO BUSRAH . Tower a 2.
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... Tower - tombs Druze revenge --- Ruins of ' Atîl Primitive telescope - Singular monument Description of Suweideh and its extensive ruins Greek inscriptions and dates - Sheikh Wâked el - Hamdân , the Druze chief- An evening party ...
... Tower - tombs Druze revenge --- Ruins of ' Atîl Primitive telescope - Singular monument Description of Suweideh and its extensive ruins Greek inscriptions and dates - Sheikh Wâked el - Hamdân , the Druze chief- An evening party ...
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... right bank of the river , a few miles higher up , contrast strongly with the dark sides and summits of Mani'a that tower over them . This fine valley is almost a desert now , and the population is СНАР . Х. 13 TO THE JEBEL HAURAN .
... right bank of the river , a few miles higher up , contrast strongly with the dark sides and summits of Mani'a that tower over them . This fine valley is almost a desert now , and the population is СНАР . Х. 13 TO THE JEBEL HAURAN .
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... towers from thirty to forty feet high , resembling ancient belfreys . At 6-15 we crossed the rocky bed of a winter torrent coming into the Liwa from the east , apparently from the neighbourhood of Tell Khaledîyeh . Here on our right ...
... towers from thirty to forty feet high , resembling ancient belfreys . At 6-15 we crossed the rocky bed of a winter torrent coming into the Liwa from the east , apparently from the neighbourhood of Tell Khaledîyeh . Here on our right ...
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... towers like belfries , but the buildings to which they are attached have nothing about them of the nature of ecclesiastical edifices . There is one tower of much superior workmanship to the rest , though of the same dimensions and plan ...
... towers like belfries , but the buildings to which they are attached have nothing about them of the nature of ecclesiastical edifices . There is one tower of much superior workmanship to the rest , though of the same dimensions and plan ...
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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