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 252 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_275.jpg |
Transcript | «3 PICTURESQUE PALESTINE. The grandest mountain groups are found in the centre of the peninsula, where granite, porphyry, sienite, gneiss, and mica schist occur. The granite district is fullest of fine seem RED EN DURING I Mi FIRST DAY'S MARCH [N nil DESERT. The prop-1 much ikill. If it is unevenly the poor beast suffers a good deal tad i ambling until thinj tpe. Oi the doleritic dykes which streak the gneissic and SchistOS* an< \a\ax\ effect tO the panorama. The tumbled group of granite mountains is dh \ 11 m r i\ THE oi si ! ThtBr«l.\win nrv.-r trouble, htrntsw; -urncy. into ti on the west the Mount Serb*] pile, in the centre tin Jebel Katharfna group, and in the south the-roup which is dominated by Jebel UmmS» |