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| Title | Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, Vol. 2 |
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| Publisher | D. Appleton and Company |
| Date | 1883 |
| Description | Index: Phoenicia and Lebanon / by the Rev. H. W. Jessup -- The Phoenician plain / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- Acre, the key of Palestine, Mount Carmel and the river Kishon, Maritime cities and plains of Palestine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Lydda and Ramleh, Philistia / By Lt. Col. Warren -- The south country of Judaea / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- The southern borderland and Dead Sea / by Professor Palmer -- Mount Hor and the cliffs of Edom, The convent of St. Catherine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Sinai / by the Rev. C. P. Clarke -- The land of Goshen, Cairo, Memphis, Thebes, Edfu and Philae / by S. Lane-Poole. |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | DS107 .W73 v.2 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1703789~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_015 |
| Title | Page 62 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_015_079.jpg |
| Transcript | rr. th * page 60). The mainland Ty in that the island my inhabited and fortified, and the commercial unland md, but sufficient in the ride, about ^Cl : ' 'her, the cit i. It the dweOii suburban, with the hills. But all : q ^ waste We can trace t! by which wal 1 from these ^ to the R : Am itself is a picture up of ruins, with md ho\- I the 1 e nun:' sand irs to ad gushes forth with great force. It fcch built roue :{K^ pours immense volumes of • vithgn 60). II. I these m which in son recall the thlehem (see ; I, has e >eea e the up to ply the This is now com ruined, b hole way along the plain, I all trending rati md, till land it reach< issive ruin, probabl\ another | aich the turned w< Th- * the aqueduct, the rcheSt point to the Roman period as the probald <tee '".but th«* : elves may claim a much greater antiquit) I adition aad opularb assign them to Ki 'onion, and some later writers a diem ider. Hut ti inqueror had i and i' he should imm< out sin gre I iiuv we believe that here, if nowfo the genius of the old Phoenid ind I am not awa mlar a elsewhere 0 by the Roman at the\ constructed the aquedu believe, but probably on the line may 1* any b» an. Persian, ( irrek. € to interrupt this great w upply. Indeed, o as late as the Saracenic or fourth and small tern, h a\\A has betMi for the pur] the plain. (agonal l in diameter, inside measure, tv feet h )K^ slopes ^« m the ground to the summit, when* the masonry it thick. th, is bound with the finest and hardest I impp I with lime, ami has thickly I d all the re *. U rmed n th round tl. and along th« eof thcaqued only U this might) v now applied 11III'J 01 «i >\ cti |