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Wilson, Charles William, Sir. Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, Vol. 2 - Page 370. 1883. Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. February 26, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/543/show/431.

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Title Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, Vol. 2
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  • Wilson, Charles William, Sir
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.
Subject.Geographic (TGN)
  • Egypt
  • Palestine
  • Sinai Peninsula
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  • books
  • illustrations (layout features)
  • plates (illustrations)
  • maps (documents)
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
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Transcript 370 PICTURESQUE PALESTINE. drives his plough across the site. Yet the name and the fame of the City of the Sun charms the stranger as of old while, standing beside the obelisk, he looks back through the long- and stately avenue of the ages that are past, and measures the gain in knowledge that patient THE GATE OF VICTORY (BAB-EN-NASR). The easternmost of the northern gates of Cairo. It was built in the reign of the Fatimy khalif El-Mustansir, a.h. 480 (a.d. 1087). scholars have won. He sees that phoenix-like power of renewing her youth, which gives all wisdom the deathlessness which is at once a type and a presage of immortality/' * * R. S. Poole, " Cities of Egypt," pages 71, 83, 106, 131/., 147, whence much of the contents of this chapter has, with the author's permission, been derived. It should be stated that the recent explorations at Pithom, under the auspices of the Egyptian Exploration Fund and Sir Erasmus Wilson, were brought to a successful issue mainly by the exertions of Mr. R. S. Poole (joint secretary with Miss Amelia B. Edwards to the i^un ; and the energy of M. Naville.
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