The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... limestone rock , and by a curious irony of fate these chambers of the dead are the only places where a living inhabitant of Gadara is to be found According to Josephus , Gadara was a Greek city , and it appears at least not improbable ...
... limestone rock , and by a curious irony of fate these chambers of the dead are the only places where a living inhabitant of Gadara is to be found According to Josephus , Gadara was a Greek city , and it appears at least not improbable ...
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... limestone bluffs , which spring rather abruptly from the river on both sides , and the streets rise above one another , and are connected by flights of steps . It is the commercial depôt of an extensive and fertile dis- trict , but owes ...
... limestone bluffs , which spring rather abruptly from the river on both sides , and the streets rise above one another , and are connected by flights of steps . It is the commercial depôt of an extensive and fertile dis- trict , but owes ...
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... limestone , have been excavated . A conspicuous building has been erected close to the water , from the fragments of the Tell Hûm syna- gogue . Since the 4th century Tell Hum has been pointed out by all the Christian writers as the site ...
... limestone , have been excavated . A conspicuous building has been erected close to the water , from the fragments of the Tell Hûm syna- gogue . Since the 4th century Tell Hum has been pointed out by all the Christian writers as the site ...
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... limestone base , and is , generally speaking , a level champaign country , but contains large quantities of wet bog . Its southern portion is partly a continuation of the Golden Vale of Limerick , so celebrated for its fertility , and ...
... limestone base , and is , generally speaking , a level champaign country , but contains large quantities of wet bog . Its southern portion is partly a continuation of the Golden Vale of Limerick , so celebrated for its fertility , and ...
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... Limestone occurs in Galway ; and three townships , Ballinasloe ( part of which is , how- some places along the foot of these mountains . Round the base of ever , in the county of Roscommon ) , 4159 ; Loughrea , 3072 ; and this group are ...
... Limestone occurs in Galway ; and three townships , Ballinasloe ( part of which is , how- some places along the foot of these mountains . Round the base of ever , in the county of Roscommon ) , 4159 ; Loughrea , 3072 ; and this group are ...
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