Letters on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land, Zväzok 2H. Colburn, 1843 |
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Strana 6
... seen in the distance- the Tabernacle , the golden calf , the brazen serpent , are disposed round the sacred mountain , while the foreground is occupied by the Convent and its garden , and a group of Arabs , aiming with guns , and bows ...
... seen in the distance- the Tabernacle , the golden calf , the brazen serpent , are disposed round the sacred mountain , while the foreground is occupied by the Convent and its garden , and a group of Arabs , aiming with guns , and bows ...
Strana 29
... seen at Bagdad - mistaking him for Haroun Al- raschid . An hour and a half farther , after pass- ing the entrance to Wady Sabra , we quitted Wady Araba , and ascended eastwards into the dreary Gebel Shera , the Mount Seir of Scripture ...
... seen at Bagdad - mistaking him for Haroun Al- raschid . An hour and a half farther , after pass- ing the entrance to Wady Sabra , we quitted Wady Araba , and ascended eastwards into the dreary Gebel Shera , the Mount Seir of Scripture ...
Strana 30
... seen nothing hitherto but sand , stones , rattam , and the usual thorny plants of the desert ; it was very hot too , that day " Shoof ! " cried somebody -and imagine my thrill of delight at seeing , close to me , a large bush of ...
... seen nothing hitherto but sand , stones , rattam , and the usual thorny plants of the desert ; it was very hot too , that day " Shoof ! " cried somebody -and imagine my thrill of delight at seeing , close to me , a large bush of ...
Strana 34
... seen , as it was intended to be seen , by the stranger ap- proaching the town by the regular road . The Khasné far surpassed my expectations ; it would be impossible , indeed , to describe the effect of such a monument suddenly ...
... seen , as it was intended to be seen , by the stranger ap- proaching the town by the regular road . The Khasné far surpassed my expectations ; it would be impossible , indeed , to describe the effect of such a monument suddenly ...
Strana 37
... the centre of the wall . The chamber is fourteen paces broad , by sixteen deep , ( not counting the re- cess ) , and we thought from thirty to thirty - five feet high . had seen the whole of Petra . Days and weeks PETRA . 37.
... the centre of the wall . The chamber is fourteen paces broad , by sixteen deep , ( not counting the re- cess ) , and we thought from thirty to thirty - five feet high . had seen the whole of Petra . Days and weeks PETRA . 37.
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