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 399 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_426.jpg |
Transcript | ^^BHte^BHei^H ^..TiY ■•'. % CAIRO. 399 Carrying the eye towards the north, a shining line is seen roughly dividing the old city from the new. This is El-Khalig, or " the Canal" par excellence (see page 394), which divides Cairo longitudinally from north-east to south-west into two strongly contrasted portions. West of the canal and next the Nile, the deforming touch of the khedivial bricklayer has ruined everything. East of the canal the old Muslim city of the Fatimis still retains its picturesque character, and as we enter it we may almost forget for the moment that there ever was such a person as Isma'il, the ex- Khedive, or such civilising agents as railways and frockcoats and the opera bouffe. Of the canal itself, it may be remarked en passant that, A SUBURBAN CAF& Th, two men on the bench in the foreground are playing ai a game called mankatah; small pebM hemispherical holes in a board. This game exercises the powers of calculation, and \$ ol ***> I he i \ y not only for the coffee drunk by himself and his antagonist, but by the spectators of tIM ^ame. |