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 466 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_494.jpg |
Transcript | EDFU AND PHILM. 465 of the cataract cannot be dangerous; but the stream is very swift and strong, the black rocks bristle on all sides, the backcurrents and underpull are problematical, and. or s^Hj the rapid does not appear quite so attractive. In a ^^^^^^^^^^^^_ large boat, with an experienced man at the helm, there is no appreciable risk; and a skilful canoer would probably make nothing of shooting the Cataract, and would come out on the northern side as safely as the native swimmers who entertain the traveller with their well-worn feat of going down the rapid on logs of wood. The actual passage through which boats and swimmers shoot the cataract is a sort of millrace, perhaps two hundred feet long and rather narrow, bounded ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^™ on either side by steep but not very high rocks. The stream runs down il pretty 1 there is a fine curly crest near the bottom, where currents meet; but with the boa, **. A^-.^km \\ LOOKING NORTH PROM THE ISLAND OF 1 At Aswan ,t Efeohanl dentin, tl ■ |