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 136 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_155.jpg |
Transcript | 136 PICTVRESQl TE P. ILESTINE. On leaving this utterly deserted place we follow a track which leads due east, across the plain of Sharon to Kefr Saba (see page 117), a distance of eight miles. On our right we see ex* sive marshes where herds of bulla!, pasture in the spring-time, and skirt a wooded district, the remnant of the forest of Arsuf, called .\ by Geoffry de Vinsauf, the Crusadi chronicler. Kefr Saba (Caphar Saba) from a distance presents a very picturesque appearance, with palm trees growing in its open spaces, and olive and orchards north and west of it. The view on page 1 17 is taken from the east. The villa nds on rising ground on the elevated plain, and is one hundred and sixt) eight • A ROADSIDE FOUNTAIN AND TOMB. I'll.- S. Ml of Al'i'i Nabflt, commonly called the Tomb of Tabitha (Dorcas). |