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 468 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_496.jpg |
Transcript | \£ mi* EDFU AND PHIL straight and the helm put up sharp at the right moment, th< :iul lhc into smooth water without difficulty or danger. Above the Cataract is Philae, the most beautiful island on the Nile (see the steel engraving facing page 459). The ride across the desert from Aswan to Philae is a singularly impressive one. First a dreary, neglected Arab cemetery is traversed, where 467 ncr MAHATTAH, NEAR PHILiE, ON THE NILE. The home of many of the Shellalis or boatmen of the Cataract. old Kufic tombstotv dating even from r ninth century, are lying about on the ground under out feet, an<l ruined liul<- n raise up their domes hen- and 1: It is said that the first miKrddin of Islam was buried here. I h< n wre find oursel unid strange and v. |