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 328 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_354.jpg |
Transcript | 328 PICTURESQUE PALESTINE. to bring down on them the vengeance he had denounced for their impiety. He had told them after they killed the miraculous camel, that on the morrow their faces should become yellow the next day red, and the third day black, and that on the fourth God's vengeance should light on them. The first three signs happened, and the people at once prepared to put Saleh to death. God delivered him from them and sent him to Palestine. Some add that he died TARFAH OR TAMARISK GROVE, WADY ES SHEIKH. This fine grove is called Tarfat el Gidarain. The wady itself cuts through the granitic wall which fences in Sinai. at Ramleh, and was buried at the spot where the White Mosque stands, to which is attached the famous tower. Mohammadan geography is not trustworthy : no traditions connected with Sale 1 have taken root at Ramleh. One may therefore credit the welt in Wady es Sheikh (the valley itself probably acquired its designation from him) with being the real tomb or cenotaph ot prophet Saleh, the great saint of the Bedawin, who had retired to this valley from Hejer. |