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... land , about the year 1530 ; Pietro Della Valle , an Italian , who was in that country about 1620 ; Otter , a Frenchman , who travelled in 1730 ; and the celebrated Danish engineer , Niebuhr , about thirty years later . Since this last ...
... land , about the year 1530 ; Pietro Della Valle , an Italian , who was in that country about 1620 ; Otter , a Frenchman , who travelled in 1730 ; and the celebrated Danish engineer , Niebuhr , about thirty years later . Since this last ...
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... lands on a fine red soil , and of great extent . The style of building in both of these villages , like that of the ruined ones we had already passed , was remarkable , each separate dwelling having a high pointed dome of unburnt bricks ...
... lands on a fine red soil , and of great extent . The style of building in both of these villages , like that of the ruined ones we had already passed , was remarkable , each separate dwelling having a high pointed dome of unburnt bricks ...
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... land to go to Mecca . One of them was from Cashmeer , and one from Lahore , the only places I recog- nised by name ; and several of them spoke Hindoostanee , in which language I was able to converse with them , much to their joy and ...
... land to go to Mecca . One of them was from Cashmeer , and one from Lahore , the only places I recog- nised by name ; and several of them spoke Hindoostanee , in which language I was able to converse with them , much to their joy and ...
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... land , when we came immediately opposite to Beer , which stands on the east side of the stream . We halted here for some. PASSAGE OF THE RIVER EUPHRATES , AT BEER . FROM BEER , ACROSS THE PLAINS OF THE TURCOMANS ,. Passage of the River ...
... land , when we came immediately opposite to Beer , which stands on the east side of the stream . We halted here for some. PASSAGE OF THE RIVER EUPHRATES , AT BEER . FROM BEER , ACROSS THE PLAINS OF THE TURCOMANS ,. Passage of the River ...
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... land of Ethiopia ; " but Herodotus speaks of Indian Ethiopians in his time ; and , among the early writers , the word Ethiopia was applied to the country of the black people generally . * The Euphrates seems to have been thought even ...
... land of Ethiopia ; " but Herodotus speaks of Indian Ethiopians in his time ; and , among the early writers , the word Ethiopia was applied to the country of the black people generally . * The Euphrates seems to have been thought even ...
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Aleppo ancient appearance Arabs Arbela arch Arrian Babylon Bagdad banks bazārs Belus Benjamin of Tudela bricks building built called camels caravan caravanserai castle centre chief chiefly Christians colour court Ctesiphon D'Anville Desert Diarbekr distance dress dwellings east eastern Edessa edifice Egypt encamped Euphrates feet fifty gardens gate going ground Hadjee halted height Herodotus Hillah hills horses hour hundred inhabitants inscriptions journey khan Koords l'Euphrate le Tigre Mardin masonry Memoir Mesopotamia miles minarets Mohammedan mosque mounds mountains Mousul nearly night Nineveh Nisibeen Nisibis observed Orfah palace party Pasha passed Persian piastres plain portion present qu'il remains Rennel Rich river road Roman ruins says seemed seen Seleucia Sheikh side Sinjar square stadia stone Strabo stream summit sun-set Syria Tartars temple tent thought thousand Tigre Tigris tomb towers town travellers Turkish Turks village Wahabis walls whole Yezeedis Yézidis
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Page 417 - Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Page 303 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 230 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him : but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. 25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
Page 70 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to -go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Page 428 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Page 303 - The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, And of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: And there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases ; And there is none end of their corpses ; they stumble upon their corpses...
Page 441 - Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Page 229 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him; and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, ' Give this man place ;' and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
Page 309 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it...
Page 19 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.