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 234 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_257.jpg |
Transcript | 2U PICTURES^ PA LI SPIN. .\n\A, through which travel! formerly drawn up into the ul Ai ills, his liedav. ward, and standing beneath I I I Mo l>orf ntly a turl out, then a rope with a b ^ let down; in this the letter of introdu m a branch placed. y drawn U] The- buttn ur to this wiei | built by G ler of tb' h troops during their occupation pt. A tal ion of the building by that command' Presently an in> whi< h leads Into a i rd between the garden and th for admission is welcomed by tl | th* hi emb- id a kiss, His Vrab attendants and cameb ic in the \ )t while he is led into the convent through wall n<>o' to an entrance, no* built up, which rlj used : ind called BAb er R the AW ipace enclosed within the convent walls is cut up into a number of irregularly shaped small rangei in .ill directions, forming quite a labyrinth of narrow : passages In one of these court is a II with near it. in other r flow* •• planti era! places runnin rude trellis work. Th< mam is approached bj r ladd and apartm Og with fine picturesque t ovei the walls at the west and \ lou tow oi eells, hall of which are reserved foi the use ol pil-ums and are built north west wall, and open into a I corridor or p o ih j I he wall with loopholes, through which glimpses : the broad plain of Er R&hah In tb I the ordnance i the n i high antiquity, I itly the patch* • of the rransfiguration which, with its handsome ft ids in tl »u rarely used mosque ill chap the convent, in which maseei OCCasiouah rhe Ord die fraternity t<> pi * a the tii- wheel, more or 1- Hid WSpended h> A ' ranite, thus suspended a\\A struck with a md Th« imple i ^in<l md in the lower stage ol tw plank i I which, Oil bean- struck, can 1" ' •»" ° |