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 240 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_263.jpg |
Transcript | 140 PICTURESQUE PALESTINE. shipped fr P« and I r on their voyage to In c^ 10 a the bfl mparable with th airo or Dam ^er smaller eities. In them, wonderful and facetious donkey one sees the es of the Red & Nubi ;yptia: mingled wjti >ksatp : native silks and embroideries, the: >:ts from \ and pebbl pilgrims from Mecca. cur in every port which travel! [ucnt Mill : Her who has rushed across Europe, the Mediternu nd la r him who slowly tor tWO da) own this ii.' in Sue/ j 1 bar t\w> world ::al, DOT the Port, nor th :tiee. nor the dlip Offices, nor th nor the workshops bill ot all manner ot mechanical contrivances : thr van - in which modern civilisation delights, ha <red hanged its people. ninny, whitewashed, flat roofed, narrow, althouj nu\ have t<> get out a, a\\A though its harbour and | y with the 1 nations,*' tor just as we won- m ■a fall, we I a large vessi . and an* trchantman manned and ring our detention, battered by the pitiless (halt of the Sue/ donkey boys, who had SWarmed down fa make an I In land to ot : the bulwark ar floating but not moving p had examii posiii<> Xhe blueba) is bounded b) die wear) ijrassless desert which ever shimmers and glistens in the almost rainless atmosphere. Stands OUt on the right, with its tall minaret, from a forest ot'masts and \ards oi* nati\e boats, rhung by the | i ) ; while to th» of the desert of broken b olourcd tfnaitk ra ae tua\ have worn oii in the Canal. The regulations of the Canal CompaS doubtless most wise and MCCI moorin.; at a great deal of irritation t.» It b i al ban io unini is have be h common o mirage even Has worn es no excitement whatexer 1 ' I el US1 i minute or t An havegi tl home and abroad, with whi mootl |