Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1829 - Egypt |
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... Dead Sea - Convent of Saint Saba - Site of Sodom and Gomorrah - Ghor- Sea of Lot - Dead Sea Apple - Frighted Arabs - Mar Saba - Bethlehem - Importunity of the Inhabitants -Cave and Church of the Nativity - Attempted Assas- sination ...
... Dead Sea - Convent of Saint Saba - Site of Sodom and Gomorrah - Ghor- Sea of Lot - Dead Sea Apple - Frighted Arabs - Mar Saba - Bethlehem - Importunity of the Inhabitants -Cave and Church of the Nativity - Attempted Assas- sination ...
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... dead ; horrid monuments of the victories of this savage animal . • I inquired of the Bedouin Arabs , if the dib , as they call him , ever attacked men ? They said , he never did : that he has been known to attack an infant ; but this ...
... dead ; horrid monuments of the victories of this savage animal . • I inquired of the Bedouin Arabs , if the dib , as they call him , ever attacked men ? They said , he never did : that he has been known to attack an infant ; but this ...
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... dead bodies of those who die of peritoneal inflammation : but I believe the virus is produced after death in all cases of abdominal inflammation ; the Arabs pretend the poison is only to be found on the inner coat of the intestines ...
... dead bodies of those who die of peritoneal inflammation : but I believe the virus is produced after death in all cases of abdominal inflammation ; the Arabs pretend the poison is only to be found on the inner coat of the intestines ...
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... dead bodies , and bestowing them in costly sepulchres , it is necessary to refer to the doctrine of the transmigration of souls , which opinion the Egyptians held in common with the Hindoos . The religions of both , in all proba- bility ...
... dead bodies , and bestowing them in costly sepulchres , it is necessary to refer to the doctrine of the transmigration of souls , which opinion the Egyptians held in common with the Hindoos . The religions of both , in all proba- bility ...
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... dead body : " though it may be permitted to doubt the truth of the tanner's antiseptic nature * . The honours of a splendid * It appears , by recent observation , that operative tanners are never the victims of pulmonary consumption ...
... dead body : " though it may be permitted to doubt the truth of the tanner's antiseptic nature * . The honours of a splendid * It appears , by recent observation , that operative tanners are never the victims of pulmonary consumption ...
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Alexandria Allah ancient animal Arabs arrival Assouan beauty Bedouin believe Bishop boat body Cairo called Casheff CASIDA Christian church colocynth convent Coptic Copts CRANIOLOGY crocodile Damietta Dead Sea dear Sir Desert ditto divine EDFOU Egyptian Egyptian vulture embalming endeavoured English eyes feet five four give Gourna Greek hakkim half hand harem head Hebrew Herodotus honour hundred hyenas Israelites Jerusalem Jews journey Lady H Ladyship lake LAMJA Levantine look magician Menzalè miles monks mountains mummy never night Nile Nubian observed opinion Osiris Pacha passage perhaps piastres pistol poison priests R. R. M. LETTER Red Sea religion remain ruins sacred Salehie Salt sand says seen sepulchre serpent servant Sheik shore Siout splendid Suez Surur Syria temple Thebes thee thing thou thousand Tiberias tion tomb took traveller Turk Turkish Upper Egypt village walls women word Zoan
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Page 182 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Page 216 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 301 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
Page 182 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry...
Page 311 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Page 300 - There appeared in these our days a man of great virtue, named Jesus Christ, who is yet living amongst us, and of the Gentiles is accepted for a Prophet of truth, but his own disciples call him the Son of God.
Page 248 - ... rumbling about my bed ; but I regarded him nothing at all. When afterwards I began to slumber, then he kept such a racket and rumbling upon the chamber stairs, as if many emptie hogsheads and barrels had been tumbled down...
Page 290 - There shall not be found among you any one that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 213 - Suez, as Niebuhr, with good reason, conjectures. There is no other road of three days' march, in the way from Suez towards Sinai ; nor is there any other well absolutely bitter on the whole of this coast, as far as Ras Mohammed [the extreme southern point of the peninsula].
Page 356 - Halley's observations on evaporation ; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon and seven other streams. Several travellers, and, among others, Troilo and d'Arvieux, assert that they remarked fragments of walls and palaces in the Dead Sea.