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 212 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_234.jpg |
Transcript | PICTURESQUE PALESTINE. watered by pleasant Si and filled with trees and flowers, and the uulamk f,,™- rich and plentiful pa Interspersed with cornfields. Before the difficult! overcome and the and iest r« th,. j^ lorn was a flourishing mtry and ital one of the worl tres of commercial om the Midianites and Ish con the | Arabia through this pro- vin< p| in i . vii. 28), and them for manufactures and other commod the realm of tht from th( befi I hrist the i was inhabited I>\ the bathaeans, of wl si\ e <i\ ilisation there arc still abundant ti a in the inscripti architectural remains wh er the countr A.D. Edom became man province, and an even more im|><>r: ciu than I« '« I'mmdiu-<d there amt) was mtrouuLtvi w at a ver\ earl\ ; Bishops of I1' havin snni ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the By the foulfl century the commerce had been diverted, the anarchy, n. and wanton violence m-lu about the fulfilment of th* JCC? i ^^^^^^^^^^B^ ■ be conceaU-.l in th. |