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 28 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_015_043.jpg |
Transcript | 28 PICTURESQUE PALESTINE. the south-west and ride on by Neb'a el Hadid (Iron Fountain) and around the ridge, returning eastward through the wheat-fields above Fareiya to the Neb'a el Asal, or fountain of honey, the northern source of the Nahr el Kelb. It rises amidst a mass of boulders, angular masses of rock, and loose stones, in a recess of the north-west slope of the Sunnin range, and the crystal water runs westward amid its stony banks with not a tree or shrub to shade it. In winter it is buried under snowdrifts and is inaccessible. The Arabs say, " the fountains of the of milk and honey run into the Dog's mouth." We now pass on from the honey fountain to the fountain of milk. A half-hour's ride to the west brings us to the Jisrd Hajr, the largest natural bridge in Syria, under which How the waters of the Neb'a el Lebban (fountain of Milk) (see pages 20 and z:X One mightcross it w out being aware of its existence;, its surface being on a Beirut, prom JAITA, ., p. .. ,,1 level with the decs on both Sides. But a giauv A beautifully situated village north of the Dog River (Nahr lcvCJ W1UJ ul<" . &gP'£l&S!S>SrS«t l::,::;;;::;r";;t suffices to reveal the great chasm of the south brand! '""""!""" of the Dog River, flowing from Neb'a el Lebban, ^"•^^jyffiBKffi^^l |