Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1829 - Egypt |
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... Tombs in the Libyan Moun- tain - Manufacture of Mummies - Arab Troglodytes— Purchase of Mummies - Credulity of a Copt - Re- searches among the Tombs - Methods of Embalming— Skulls Mummy - powder - Comparative Craniology-- National ...
... Tombs in the Libyan Moun- tain - Manufacture of Mummies - Arab Troglodytes— Purchase of Mummies - Credulity of a Copt - Re- searches among the Tombs - Methods of Embalming— Skulls Mummy - powder - Comparative Craniology-- National ...
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... Tombs in the Mountain- Thermal Springs - Lake of Tiberias - Encounters with Banditti - Bedouin Robbers - Jaffa - Ramah - Moun- tains of Judæa - Valley of Elah - Route to Jerusalem 305 LETTER XXXIX . TO EDGAR GARSTON , ESQ . Jerusalem ...
... Tombs in the Mountain- Thermal Springs - Lake of Tiberias - Encounters with Banditti - Bedouin Robbers - Jaffa - Ramah - Moun- tains of Judæa - Valley of Elah - Route to Jerusalem 305 LETTER XXXIX . TO EDGAR GARSTON , ESQ . Jerusalem ...
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... tombs in the adjoining mountain . It was a walk of a couple of hours in the burning sun to get to the place ; and the ... tomb , and the amazing depth of the well , I flattered myself with the hope that no European had visited the ...
... tombs in the adjoining mountain . It was a walk of a couple of hours in the burning sun to get to the place ; and the ... tomb , and the amazing depth of the well , I flattered myself with the hope that no European had visited the ...
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... tomb I visit , they dispute the entrance with me . Their cry is so lugubrious at night , and so much resembles the melancholy howl of the Arabs , that I have frequently mis- taken it for the common lamentation of the women , at the ...
... tomb I visit , they dispute the entrance with me . Their cry is so lugubrious at night , and so much resembles the melancholy howl of the Arabs , that I have frequently mis- taken it for the common lamentation of the women , at the ...
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... tomb ? glory peradventure gilds their graves ; but ca- lumny has been the living recompense of one ; fanaticism has embittered the dying moments of another ; and poverty has been the portion of the widow of the last . The learned of all ...
... tomb ? glory peradventure gilds their graves ; but ca- lumny has been the living recompense of one ; fanaticism has embittered the dying moments of another ; and poverty has been the portion of the widow of the last . The learned of all ...
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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 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 Philo 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 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 314 - So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
Page 221 - This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating : an omer for every man according to the number of your persons, take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
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 31 - ... by them to a great extent. 447. The ravages of the Locust are often adverted to in the Bible, and the descriptions there given correspond with those of modern travelers. They are spoken of as a " great army," and it is said that " the land before them is as the Garden of Eden, and behind them a desolate wilderness" — a result often witnessed at the present day.
Page 213 - In moving with a whole nation, the march may well be supposed to have occupied three days; and the bitter well at Marah, which was sweetened by Moses, corresponds exactly with that of Howara. This is the usual route to Mount Sinai; and was probably, therefore, that which the Israelites took on their escape from Egypt ; provided it be admitted that they crossed the sea near Suez, as Niebuhr, with good reason, conjectures. There is no other road of three days...
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...