Title | Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, Vol. 2 |
Creator (LCNAF) |
|
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. |
Subject.Geographic (TGN) |
|
Genre (AAT) |
|
Language | English |
Type (DCMI) |
|
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 178 |
Format (IMT) |
|
File Name | exotic_201304_015_199.jpg |
Transcript | 7RESQI TINE. all fours This brinj to a circular dome-shaped b, and without am \\e ^^ bottom, and which wind round the tide to about n this . rinthine tunnel to another and ,!l ularly hewn chamb l{\ j^H^mj in all din I to be no re. .stem of arr.i least h hamb. r!Uy be many i the skill of a minis to plan and exhaust! i us near the top of th ^ g^p^ led to the bott I the I 1 only dry hard mud. as though water ad rem But they cannot have been in: tombs. lli lighting them fr r could Ipture or inscripti mailer chaml imported [>itbir> tlier i hambei a the same It n removed is another prnKfrnv i e been holes in the cent: w hieh have been carefully A. Nothii ria <>r in Petra, so (Ur as 1 am lean labyrinth. Who wen and what UTpOSe, CM (Hll) be answered bv the vaguest COn tip l a the prehistoric troglodytes of 1 r thesi tificial than an) known to have been ian. But long subsequent to their epoch the Idumxans continued been It is possible tl: IfOOl cessors, a I at th abaean time^ when this part of held by them, until * bj |ohn Hyrcanus, they hollowed out this hill I finding tl ctrem< >ped a ibtcrranesn an H i ' Jibrin is a very interesting ruin, one of the tine* churches in I ta I [anna with 1 the foundations a\\A whole length, which is one hundi *** i two v line with • h of the apse, each ol them ! making the width building a little hundredand b\ twentv five, vvith apses parallel » builde: id it partially ruim Tin 1 ardi- The I tralspi Ul the splendid d ■*■ ; its pi* I be ■■pearanoc |