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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... village of Hît , in the Jebel Haurân . He informed us that a large caravan was to leave the city on Monday for his native village , taking the direct road by Nejha , and along the eastern border of the Lejah . This was the route which ...
... village of Hît , in the Jebel Haurân . He informed us that a large caravan was to leave the city on Monday for his native village , taking the direct road by Nejha , and along the eastern border of the Lejah . This was the route which ...
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... village of Baweidah , farther to the east , sur- rounded with its gardens , appeared like an island at the foot of the hills . In twenty - five minutes we passed Yelda , close upon the left , containing a few ruins , consisting of ...
... village of Baweidah , farther to the east , sur- rounded with its gardens , appeared like an island at the foot of the hills . In twenty - five minutes we passed Yelda , close upon the left , containing a few ruins , consisting of ...
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... village was fast going to ruin . The increasing exactions of the Bedawîn , and intestine feuds , are yearly diminishing the number of its inhabitants . Only a short time previously , he stated , nearly a third of the village had left ...
... village was fast going to ruin . The increasing exactions of the Bedawîn , and intestine feuds , are yearly diminishing the number of its inhabitants . Only a short time previously , he stated , nearly a third of the village had left ...
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... village of Nejha . The ground along the base of this range is thickly strewn with boulders and small fragments of basalt , and the rock itself crops up over the soil in many places . The hills and the whole valley of the ' Awaj , from ...
... village of Nejha . The ground along the base of this range is thickly strewn with boulders and small fragments of basalt , and the rock itself crops up over the soil in many places . The hills and the whole valley of the ' Awaj , from ...
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... village of Darâya to Harrân el- ' Awamîd , thus running in a direction nearly east and west . At the former place ... village , situated on the summit of a rocky mound . It bears no resemblance to the villages in the plain , being ...
... village of Darâya to Harrân el- ' Awamîd , thus running in a direction nearly east and west . At the former place ... village , situated on the summit of a rocky mound . It bears no resemblance to the villages in the plain , being ...
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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