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 238 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_261.jpg |
Transcript | *3» PICTURESQUE PALESTINE. hath dean hands and a pure heart." The Convent of therine . I ,., . , by a non-resident archbishop, w\ p^. gcntctl \>y a prior Ot, but of the convent a ially managed by an intendant rule nd the convent i^ said to I urded as a kind of penal r^ -&**&-\ part of the mm pan called Nflkb Hawy in the * r< ^-..^vvW^wj3 dement Most of the monks are uneducated men, and neark one pra< ; ~ ■ ', ; the most primitive charact' t£f*T Th ibs known as the jebeliyeh ha\ ? 1 turies been employ l'lr ■ (tee | lh. auction with the I hey are said to be detcended I ne hundred Roman tad <w hundred ith their wives and children, were pretented to ti ' Although ordinal! )U\{\ no| bo | by their monastic ^lohamm on, but they do not mal no!iquc(** - huilt in the I , propitiate th |