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| 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 242 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_015_265.jpg |
| Transcript | PICTURESQUE PALESTINE. (pot ; the width of the gulf, which would have required the lapse Oi d hours in order to e it, and the depth of the wat | r there ride the* stra: the bed of the 1 mount rath. But ,, of which a combination of circumstances make likely such as I arm of th- a which runs up behii (what ent Kholzum, the >t<>r ot Su to this arm of the . known as J«-v. Island); )t better still, a spot near the A Isinailia, famous in modern I us k land of coup take this Arab dhow, which «*n irder9and with ba piled round us sail aero I the a. where camels and encampment are to wait for us, Wethall iblewith tl authorities, for there is a I Jon nd '.\\un Mn.a this autumn | r to slop the return ot | ' id to have broken out; bo we must not be too the \\ e|| was the da] when I made such But the ant! Jght th inness but various blw te has 1 aid good bye to the ilisation aised ; the bonda I of the nineteenth ciaitur\ world IS beautiful oasis in the desert, the Red Sea and the new Quarantine -round, and, I should thinl >wn of S I h d sprin r but brackish by pro tamarisk and knotted palms, and surrounded by well : tilled A with let Th< pool which is built Summer hoi 1 which can furnish sleeping accommoci. md the boisterou may justify the unhappy claim of desert oasts to be tie hmond can turn on< k. bo* « ^ ' t pitched near the solitary palm, beside the lonely, dark coloured, brack scanty pool, on that sand hillock which li is proper, lb will D 1 will Whisper that after the Red Sea this \\a e Miriam the women of Israel I I riumph." Hut here too h th there will arise a ladder menu d"s •|K)t tells us. he who had ! been familiar with the literature of 1 with w\ vagi W *n i868 at ought et forth in the All >car A the Bedawin from th 1 iptain (.ill. K.l .. and Lieutenant Chan D in such a place. I a aids the sea 0V< t the Utt i** |