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 208 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_230.jpg |
Transcript | PICTL 'RESOf V-; /'. ILES TINE. trds the rock-cut city of Petra, in the land of Kdom. Our road leads us row the ancient I ioh, mentioned in Joshua xv. 50; Tell Arid, the site of th< Arid the 1 e, which dw .-. in ti ih," who, when he " heard tell I irael came bj the wa) of the spi ; a; a I irael, and \ \xi. [); Tell Milh, M the salt mound," where 01 1 the ancient Moladah, mentioned and Nehemiah, and later on it 1 - the Malathah of the ; : irj. and i,, perhaps, identical with the < itj of Sail mentioned in ma xv. 62 ; and nex! bj 'Ar'arah, Till V. When mi a hie h might well serve as pUa and \ the Aroer of Judah 1 I Sam. to which David after his victories 1 a share ,A the spoil the only tra the ancient town which now remain are a few wells built up with rude n containing water, I 'he character of the scenery now begin hange, and rough stony vallej >pen plains through whie have hitherto been pa ind it beconr y moment m i ur are entering upon die confines of th '"' wilderness." 1' h this wild region, h Jc Madherah, a hill of which the Arabs tell the followin nd : " A peopl< : hc |