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 319 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_345.jpg |
Transcript | ■BHB SINAI. hermits1 cells In some the plaster adheres to the walls, and here and th inscription tells the story of the life of a former occupier. Tho march acn the mouth of Wady Hebran, about eighteen miles, is a tiring one At the entrance of the with AW >ss the plain to valley are seen some Sinaitic inscriptions, which suggest their same origin Do O with those in Wady Mukatteb. The nery now becomes more imposing, and there are groups of palms, i nese Strang uvpwviia ■« *< ■ tamarisk-trees, and seyals fringing the JKSW course of the half hidden stream. The Abbas Pasha, whose unfinished palace is so conspicuous from Jebel Musa buill Ofl the summit of Jebel I iniveh,-commenced a road from Tor to Sinai Some portions refl .,..1.1 (VIAL DEPOSITS These stranee <!■ L„»,m m:,v once I |