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 362 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_389.jpg |
Transcript | 362 PICTURESQUE PALESTINE. primitive Egypt," the great trade-mart at the Tanitic mouth of the Nile, where caravans from Midian and cargoes from Tarshish brought the merchandise of the East to meet the traders A VILLAGE THRESHING-FLOOR. Showing a primitive threshing-sledge drawn by buffaloes, and a peasant separating the chaff from the grain with a winnowing-fork. The huts of the village are formed of mud and sun-dried bricks, roofed with palm-tree rafters thatched with stalks of Indian corn, palm-leayes, and oia mats. The dark patches on the mud walls represent cakes of fuel made of dung and straw; when thoroughly dry they are stored for use. of Memphis, that the first scene of the Hebrew sojourn in Egypt was laid. When the famous Twelfth Dynasty had died away in a woman, a mysterious race of foreign warriors conquered |