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 384 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_411.jpg |
Transcript | 384 PICTURESQUE PALESTLNE. blades and the old-fashioned richly mounted arms have been mainly bought up, and Birmingham articles have taken their place. Besides all the fixed bazaars, there is what may be called a running or itinerary market of water-carriers (a most deserving and very numerous class—one of them may be seen at the left of the illustration of the Shoe Market, see page 376), coffee-sellers, auctioneers, and hawkers of vegetables, fruits, sherbet, and all manner of goods. As we traverse the old High Street from end to end we see some of the most famous mosques of Cairo. There are upwards of three hundred of these beautiful and characteristic buildings in the city, to say nothing of smaller chapels ; but of this PULPIT OF THE TOMB-MOSQUE OF BARKUK. Presented by Kait Bay. It is carved in hard limestone, and is one of the most beautiful existing specimens of Arabian sculpture. |