Biblical Researches in Palestine, and in the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838, Volume 3 |
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Abulfeda Akka ancient Anjar Anti-Lebanon Antt appears Arabic arch ascended Ba'albek Bâniâs Barada basin Bearings Beirût Beisân Beit Bezetha Biblioth bridge brow Burckhardt called Capernaum castle chasm church columns Comp corner course crossed Damascus Damascus gate declivity deep Deir descended distant Druzes east eastern Ehden el-Husn Eusebius feet former fortress fountain further gate Ghôr Hamah Haram Hâsbeiya Hazor hewn hills Holy City hour Jebel esh-Sheikh Jermuk Jerusalem Jordan Josephus Kefr Khân lake latter Le Quien Lebanon Lîtâny lower Mejdel Merj mile minutes Nâbulus Nahr Neby northeast northern northwest o'clock Onomast passed plain probably ridge Ritter river road rock rocky ruins running sarcophagi Scythopolis seen Seetzen sepulchre Sheikh side Sidon slope southern southwest steep stones stream Syria Tell temple Thomson Tiberias tower tract travellers trees Tripoly valley village visited Wady wall western Zion καὶ
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Page 404 - B&nias is unique ; combining in an unusual degree the elements of grandeur and beauty. It nestles in its recess at the southern base of the mighty Hermon, which towers in majesty to an elevation of seven or eight thousand feet above.
Page 333 - And John also was baptizing in JEnon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
Page 132 - The distance was just hall' an hour. The well is on the end of a low spur or swell, running out from the northeastern base of Gerizim ; and is still fifteen or twenty feet above the level of the plain below. The mouth of the well was stopped with several stones, which could easily be removed. Several men gathered around us, who said there was now much water in it. The depth of the well as now ascertained is about seventy-five or eighty feet.1 The remains of the ancient church are just above the well,...
Page 259 - Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven ? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. 12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
Page 219 - We thus find the second wall running from near Hippicus northwards to the monument of John; and again, we find traces of an ancient wall running from the Damascus gate, which was in the second wall, to a point near the Latin convent. There can be little question but that these traces are...
Page 593 - Lebanon, and found, as he informed me, the cedar growing abundantly on those parts of the mountain lying north of the road between Baalbek and Tripoly. The trees are of all sizes, old and young, but none so ancient and venerable as those usually visited.
Page 298 - Furik, on a low hill on the north side of the plain. It was said to have two sources of living water ; one in a cavern, and the other a running fountain called 'Ain Kebir. Setting off at 12.25, we passed to the right around the end of the low rocky ridge, which shuts in the strip of plain, and which terminates just below Beit Furik.
Page 399 - Shems bore N. 20° E. distant about two miles. The lake lies at the bottom of a deep bowl, apparently an ancient crater ;' not less than from a hundred and fifty to two hundred feet below the level of the surrounding tract. The form is an irregular circle ; the diameter of the water being a mile and perhaps more.
Page 117 - Mukutta' and all the waters running to it must find a channel ; while it would seem to form the water-shed near Fuleh, to turn the waters in that neighbourhood towards the valley of Jezreel and the Jordan. Nearly in the south, a little village, Zelafeh, was perhaps a mile and a half distant ; and also, more to the left, the Tell on the southeast side of which stands Ta'annuk, the Taanach of Scripture. As we stood upon the noble Tell, with the wide plain and Taanach thus before us, we could not but...
Page 229 - It follows, that the arch was well known in the east long before the period of the Jewish exile ; and at least seven or eight centuries before the time of Herod. And although, among the ruins of Nineveh, it is less frequent and less massive and elaborate than at Jerusalem ; yet this may perhaps be sufficiently accounted for, by the absence of like appropriate materials, and by the very different character of the Assyrian architecture in general. In respect to the huge bevelled stones...