The Rivers of Paradise and Children of Shem: With a Copious Appendix, and a Disquisition Concerning the Expedition of Sesostris Into India |
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... Bombay Branch of the Royal Geographical Society for Feb. 1841 , some notices by me of the geological features of the Nerbudda near Mheshur are published . The fertility of the rich black deep soil around Baroach is known to all who take ...
... Bombay Branch of the Royal Geographical Society for Feb. 1841 , some notices by me of the geological features of the Nerbudda near Mheshur are published . The fertility of the rich black deep soil around Baroach is known to all who take ...
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... Bombay Calendar - Myhesur . cr Mundlais - ur , or Mundlais - ir , a considerable town is near Mheshur . It is likely that Ur Chasdim simply means The City of the Chal- deans ; Ur being the Babylonian for Ir . - Nineveh and its Palaces ...
... Bombay Calendar - Myhesur . cr Mundlais - ur , or Mundlais - ir , a considerable town is near Mheshur . It is likely that Ur Chasdim simply means The City of the Chal- deans ; Ur being the Babylonian for Ir . - Nineveh and its Palaces ...
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... Bombay , and published by Major Jervis , H.E.I.C. Engineers . * I discovered a jasper rock of rich green and purple protruding through the surface of the ground to the north of the Vindhyas . I also discovered the frankincense tree ...
... Bombay , and published by Major Jervis , H.E.I.C. Engineers . * I discovered a jasper rock of rich green and purple protruding through the surface of the ground to the north of the Vindhyas . I also discovered the frankincense tree ...
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... delinquents : some even have been put to death by order * Roberts ' Oriental Illustrations of Scripture , on Revelations xxi . 8 . + Memoir of Mr. Wilson of Bombay . THE BRAHMINS . 37 The of the prince . It 36 THE HINDOOS .
... delinquents : some even have been put to death by order * Roberts ' Oriental Illustrations of Scripture , on Revelations xxi . 8 . + Memoir of Mr. Wilson of Bombay . THE BRAHMINS . 37 The of the prince . It 36 THE HINDOOS .
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... Bombay army with great credit to themselves and advantage to the state . * About twelve hundred years ago , the Parsees , or ancient Persians , the fire worshippers , driven by the invasions of their country and consequent persecution ...
... Bombay army with great credit to themselves and advantage to the state . * About twelve hundred years ago , the Parsees , or ancient Persians , the fire worshippers , driven by the invasions of their country and consequent persecution ...
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10th chapter Abraham Abram Adjoodia Adjunta Anakims ancient Bahadoor Bancoote Baroach Barygaza bdellium beautiful Berkeley Berkeley Berkeley Berkeley LIBRARY Bombay Brahmins CALIFORNIA Berkeley CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Canaan Carlee caves Chaldees chapter of Genesis children of Anak children of Shem Christian æra coast coins Concan Deo Geraria descendants Dhar east Egypt Egyptians EXPEDITION OF SESOSTRIS feet frankincense granite Greek Havilah Hindoos History India Indus invasions Joshua Khaal king land army Lord Mahomedans Malwa Mandoo Mem Sahib Mesha Meshur Mesopotamia Mheyshur Mhow miles mountains Mundlaisur Mundleysur Nalcha nations native Nerbudda onyx onyx stone Ophir Ophir and Havilah Oriental Memoirs Ougein Ozene Paarai Parsees perhaps Persian Philistines prince probably Rajah Rajpoots Red Sea region religion remarkable river rock Scripture sculptured Sephar Seshra ships signifies Sooryas Tarshish tell temple thou tion trap UNIVERSITY OF Berkeley UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA unto verse Vindhyas virgin prime
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Page 45 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 17 - Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee...
Page 17 - And Joshua said unto all the People, ° " Thus "saith °the LORD °God of Israel, ' Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the "flood in old :ime, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor : and they served other gods.
Page 6 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden ; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 17 - 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 21 - Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Page 80 - And at that time came Joshua, and cut off. the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains ofJudah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.
Page 81 - Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down...
Page 17 - And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee, 4.
Page 17 - Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3.