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 256 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_279.jpg |
Transcript | PK TURESQl TP PALESTINE. limbs on the sand in the shadow of this wild palm, and imagine the history of the valley. Wady Gharandel comes down from the western escarpment of Jebel et Tih, the boun AIN HAWWARAH , i in , ma] I"- the ipring " Marah " of Exodus \ of the It I Hi plateau (which, with Its horizontal strata, may have suggested the name S lid), just like the Wady Am&rah, which we crossed yesterday, Its distance from i a poii \\v'm Miisa corresponds with the pro. of the Israelii >rded in die mUt WADY \M ! R Ml. Hil>le, to Klim. lb; md here Air palm t r In another valley, W further on, there are some palm tree,, and also wells oi water; but the valley is much walk |