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 349 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_376.jpg |
Transcript | SINAI 349 A world-renowned spot it is, with its remains of chapels and lens, and with its well and the tree which tells o\ foreign . who may have planted it to remind them of a far-off birth-place in Attica or Corcyra ! The five paths converge h< and then one path leads, passing by " the footprint of the pro phot's Camel/1 and the Stone which marks tho spot wh< Elijah was turned bark as 1111 worth) t<> tread the holy ground the top of the mount"* jo). I [ere on ihe summit two buildings within a few nil other, which almost always \ isible w hnir\ er the peak itself is to be s< <n. I hr ono is the ( hristian chapel near tho cleft in which Mo was placed w hen tho glory 1>f the Lord passed by; the other is the mosque built over the e in which he is said to have lived during the forty days and nights. Both chapel and mosque arc constructed of hewn blocks of red granite taken from the ruins of an earlier church or t. many fragments of which, such as lintels, jamb- stoncs, and capitals. II rod : the grey mountain sido. I he view, though not tensive nor so picturesque that from Jebel Katarina. COD 106 |