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 345 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_371.jpg |
Transcript | IW SINAI. 345 huge red bluffs of Jebel el Hamr, " The Red Mountain;, by the grand valley Wady el Leja, "Valley of Refuge." This valley, at whose head is situated the lonely convent El Arba'in, after a course of two miles to the north-west, sweeps round the end of Jebel Fera, and, now called Seil Leja now Wady ed Deir, runs north-east for more than three miles beneath the precipices of Ras Sufsafeh and the steep slopes of Jebel ed Deir to Wady es Sheikh. Here there is a confluence as it were with Wady es Sudiid, which comes down from the south, being the continuation of Wady Seba'iyeh. CONVENT OF THE ARBATN (OF THE FORTY), WADY LI |V The situation of this convent is most secluded and picturesque. The cel< "Moses' Rock " loses its claim to notoriety, il Rephidim be located in Wady Feiran. |