Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, 2. köideH. Colburn, 1829 |
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Page 182
... Salehie , lay that pasture land which was the Goshen of the Hebrews . Bryant , in speaking of the space between the Pelusiac branch and the Red Sea , says , " The Jews who , during the captivity , betook themselves to this country ...
... Salehie , lay that pasture land which was the Goshen of the Hebrews . Bryant , in speaking of the space between the Pelusiac branch and the Red Sea , says , " The Jews who , during the captivity , betook themselves to this country ...
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... Salehie , fifteen miles from Zoan ; and from thence to the vicinity of the modern Suez . The first account of their arrival , at the Red Sea , is when they " encamp at Pi- hahiroth , between Migdol and the Sea , over against Baal ...
... Salehie , fifteen miles from Zoan ; and from thence to the vicinity of the modern Suez . The first account of their arrival , at the Red Sea , is when they " encamp at Pi- hahiroth , between Migdol and the Sea , over against Baal ...
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... Salehie , which is about fifteen miles from San , I felt more at my ease , and got accus- tomed to what appeared to ... Salehie to the mouth of the canal Moes , close to the Lake of Menzalè , and which is called Bahr Aboubergh . CAMP OF ...
... Salehie , which is about fifteen miles from San , I felt more at my ease , and got accus- tomed to what appeared to ... Salehie to the mouth of the canal Moes , close to the Lake of Menzalè , and which is called Bahr Aboubergh . CAMP OF ...
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Richard Robert Madden. CAMP OF BEDOUINS . 185 Salehie is on the verge of the Desert ; it is com- posed of fifteen or sixteen miserable villages , with a population , probably , of eight thousand souls ; and these villages are shaded by a ...
Richard Robert Madden. CAMP OF BEDOUINS . 185 Salehie is on the verge of the Desert ; it is com- posed of fifteen or sixteen miserable villages , with a population , probably , of eight thousand souls ; and these villages are shaded by a ...
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... Salehie and San , and another in the vicinity of Suez . This fever in the Desert arises , I imagine , from sudden exposure to the rays of the sun . One of my camel - drivers was attacked during the jour- ney ; he complained suddenly of ...
... Salehie and San , and another in the vicinity of Suez . This fever in the Desert arises , I imagine , from sudden exposure to the rays of the sun . One of my camel - drivers was attacked during the jour- ney ; he complained suddenly of ...
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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.