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| 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 363 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_015_390.jpg |
| Transcript | ^■"■■■■■■■b^M THE LAND OF GOSHEN. the border-laud, which has now so little to invite eomnirst. I h, or Kyksos. - When they invaded the country, how they conquered it. h it, we do not know. All we can >a\ is that towards the 1 their dominion the monument Apepi, w iries 1m LIT era. and seems to ha\ the Hi.. h.*' an the capital of the 11 Pharaoh who made foeeph I hospitably entertained his kindr that under Ins reign the clul< multiplied, tilled their land in | nd contentment. awA threshed out ti rith the primitive heavy waggon still employed by the fellahin (see op| K t)ul ieses 11., Pharaoh the Oppressor, "who knew not Joseph/'was wont to i< ; : the borderland and expulsion of the ll\kso I | |>alacc at Zoan orders went forth to the Egyptian taskma impel the I lei traw their bricks. Here \ onfronted Meneptah, the Pharaoh ..i ih. i is. and his "wonders in the field of Zoan," and from the . did ti Israel set forth on the night of the < r. An Egyptian poet of the time of Pharaoh the < >ppr<-•.-,.: « /,. it was then (ailed, in terms of aim lalic admiration ' Sli« : t ul. br.i i is nought like her anion- the nioiuiiiK nl S of I hebrs. I It i ti< Ids are lull abounding daily in the produ food, her po< full "i fish hei p meadow verdant with herbage, the bower with bloomin m heat and barley heaped up a one mixes with honey, tier ships go and come daily, laden with pn there fixed their seat, there is no word of want, the small are th< ; lival of the fourth month, and how the people caOM with btan<h<<. \\A the fowler with birds, and they stood waving :;arland*. kin- is making his entry in the mornin This « .ration by the children tel. who Pithom and Raam i. i i ). Thi the oppress when "the Egyptians made the children of Israel I e with rigour: and tfa :- with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all mannn field91 (i. 13, .p. The very bricks for which the Ih Ives" (ExodllS V. 71 are still to b « «* m l] stamped with the name of Ram— II. himself with the straw still visible in it At Uintah, which M. Xaville's recent baveproved io I Ac Bible, and the Herodpolisof the G and Romans. see tb which the children of [srael built The greater part of the I occupied by numerous square chambers, which 1 entered from abo tore-room might be, whilst their i and constructed of la id well made bricks laid with |