Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. Illustrated: In a Series of Views Drawn from Nature, Volumen1Fisher, Son, & Company, 1836 - 256 páginas |
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... towns , where manufactures might be introduced , and a regular com- mercial intercourse established : the cultivation of some districts is excellent , and most are capable of it : but the people are a prey to indolence and apathy ...
... towns , where manufactures might be introduced , and a regular com- mercial intercourse established : the cultivation of some districts is excellent , and most are capable of it : but the people are a prey to indolence and apathy ...
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... town of Tarsus ; its stream passes within a short distance of the walls . Rarely can the traveller gather at once so many beautiful associations as in this vicinity , whose decay is not visible in ruinous haunts and a wasted soil : the ...
... town of Tarsus ; its stream passes within a short distance of the walls . Rarely can the traveller gather at once so many beautiful associations as in this vicinity , whose decay is not visible in ruinous haunts and a wasted soil : the ...
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... town is about four hours , or twelve miles , distant from the sea , within two miles of which , the Cydnus is 150 feet wide , and is now navigable only by small boats : the stream is full , and rather more rapid than the Orontes ; its ...
... town is about four hours , or twelve miles , distant from the sea , within two miles of which , the Cydnus is 150 feet wide , and is now navigable only by small boats : the stream is full , and rather more rapid than the Orontes ; its ...
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... town : it is a remarkable defile through a chain of inaccessible mountains , and admits of only eight horses abreast , and seems to have been cut through the rock to the depth of about forty feet . Cyrus and the Roman emperor Severus ...
... town : it is a remarkable defile through a chain of inaccessible mountains , and admits of only eight horses abreast , and seems to have been cut through the rock to the depth of about forty feet . Cyrus and the Roman emperor Severus ...
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... town : it is a remarkable defile through a chain of inaccessible mountains , and admits of only eight horses abreast , and seems to have been cut through the rock to the depth of about forty feet . Cyrus and the Roman emperor Severus ...
... town : it is a remarkable defile through a chain of inaccessible mountains , and admits of only eight horses abreast , and seems to have been cut through the rock to the depth of about forty feet . Cyrus and the Roman emperor Severus ...
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Adana Aleppo amidst Anamour ancient Antioch Arab Asia Minor Assad banks Barouk battle of Issus beautiful Bedouin Beilan beneath Beshir Beteddein Canobin caravan castle cedars Christians Cilicia Colonel Chesney convent Corinthian order covered Cydnus Damascus Daphné dark death declivities desert distance divan Druses dwellings Egypt Emir Euphrates fall feet forest gardens gates Girgius glory groves heights hill houses Ibrahim Pasha khan ladies land Lebanon lonely look luxury magnificent marble Maronite merchants miles mosque Mount Taurus mountain mulberry murmur Nahr-el-Kelb night noble numerous Orontes Pacha palace pass picturesque pillars pipe plain precipice ravine rest rich rise river rock roof ruins scene seated shadow Sheich shore side solitary sound stone stranger stream Suadeah summit Syria Tarsus Taurus rise temple tents tombs torrent towers town traveller trees Tripoli Turkish Turks valley village voice W. H. Bartlett walls wandering waters waves wild wind