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 266 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_289.jpg |
Transcript | 266 PICTURESQUE PALESTINE. ■ IN \V."\I>V IIAMK. This valley leadi up to Jebel el lib, demon Mho. as they supposed, haunted the accursed - Then instead of bringing the usual offering of corn they threw stones on the h. and kicking a little dust on them with their feet, would cry out, " Eat that and get gone !" This custom is still kept up. Each of my Ai so far as I could see, ti a stone, and kicking the over it said contempts. " Begone and feed !" If. may credit this tradition, it would go at ha>t to pi that at one time hor not uncommon in the peninsula ; and, if so, there must have been pasture for ti The seem proaches Wady Taiyebeh is fine Very noteworthj the perfect network ot" little white chalky wadies rum into and from the Till ri which meet in Wady S beikeh, and give it its n "The Net" It i^ here that a decision has to b to as to which ol t* one will follow i" ' reach Mount Sinai. 1 I* one leads b) SaraWt Khadim. with its most m terestinj I ,yi>"'<n ruin the other leads down the Wady Tai <" ti,r Sea and the Wilder! |