Travels Among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine: Including a Journey from Nazareth to the Mountains Beyond the Dead Sea, and from Thence Through the Plains of the Hauran to Bozra, Damascus, Tripoly, Lebanon, Baalbeck and by the Valley of the Orontes to Seleucia, Antioch and AleppoLongman, 1825 - 679 páginas |
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... passed over a portion of the great plain of Es- draelon , having Daborah on our left , and Nain and Endor on our right ; the two last being seated on the slope of Hermon , at a distance of about three miles from our path . The plain was ...
... passed over a portion of the great plain of Es- draelon , having Daborah on our left , and Nain and Endor on our right ; the two last being seated on the slope of Hermon , at a distance of about three miles from our path . The plain was ...
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... passed under a small village seated on the summit of a hill on the left of our road . It was called Ooom - el- Russas , or " The Mother of Lead , " but we could learn no assign- able cause for this appellation . The village was full of ...
... passed under a small village seated on the summit of a hill on the left of our road . It was called Ooom - el- Russas , or " The Mother of Lead , " but we could learn no assign- able cause for this appellation . The village was full of ...
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... passed through the encampment . We had some difficulty , indeed , in resisting their entreaties to halt at their tents for the night ; but as we were informed that the Sheikh of this tribe was encamped with another portion of his people ...
... passed through the encampment . We had some difficulty , indeed , in resisting their entreaties to halt at their tents for the night ; but as we were informed that the Sheikh of this tribe was encamped with another portion of his people ...
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... passed under the village of Arbagheen or " Forty , " but could learn no reason for its numerical name . On the opposite side of the river , in a direction of nearly west from this , we could perceive the town of Beisan , the ancient ...
... passed under the village of Arbagheen or " Forty , " but could learn no reason for its numerical name . On the opposite side of the river , in a direction of nearly west from this , we could perceive the town of Beisan , the ancient ...
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... passed under a spot on the hills on our left , which by some was called Tabakat Fehhil , and by others Jerim Mooz . As it was on an eminence difficult of access , we did not go up to it ; but my guide , who had been frequently there in ...
... passed under a spot on the hills on our left , which by some was called Tabakat Fehhil , and by others Jerim Mooz . As it was on an eminence difficult of access , we did not go up to it ; but my guide , who had been frequently there in ...
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