Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor; During the Years 1817 & 1818 |
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... inches ; excepting in colour , the flower is like the yellow acassia . On the twenty - third our crew killed a snake that was basking on the river side ; it was gray , with two black marks below its head . It was curious to see the ...
... inches ; excepting in colour , the flower is like the yellow acassia . On the twenty - third our crew killed a snake that was basking on the river side ; it was gray , with two black marks below its head . It was curious to see the ...
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... inches down , and it still continued the same : the projection was about four inches from the plane surface of the front of the temple , and it appeared to fill up the whole space between the two centre statues . This being exactly the ...
... inches down , and it still continued the same : the projection was about four inches from the plane surface of the front of the temple , and it appeared to fill up the whole space between the two centre statues . This being exactly the ...
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... inches ; after which comes the sanctuary , twenty- three feet seven inches , by twelve feet three inches ; the rest are side apartments , whimsically placed in various directions . The interior of this temple is a work not inferior to ...
... inches ; after which comes the sanctuary , twenty- three feet seven inches , by twelve feet three inches ; the rest are side apartments , whimsically placed in various directions . The interior of this temple is a work not inferior to ...
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... depth ( eighteen feet eleven inches ) of the entrance . A light black substance , which seemed to be decayed wood , was found in every apartment , in some places of the depth of two feet ; its LETTER I. ] 85 EGYPT AND NUBIA .
... depth ( eighteen feet eleven inches ) of the entrance . A light black substance , which seemed to be decayed wood , was found in every apartment , in some places of the depth of two feet ; its LETTER I. ] 85 EGYPT AND NUBIA .
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... inches ; the distance between each buttress , eight feet three inches ; breadth of the buttresses , four feet seven inches . The height of the female figures is twenty - four feet six inches , not including the head ornament which ...
... inches ; the distance between each buttress , eight feet three inches ; breadth of the buttresses , four feet seven inches . The height of the female figures is twenty - four feet six inches , not including the head ornament which ...
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Aleppo alto-relievo amongst ancient antiquities appearance Arabs arches arms arrived asked Assuan Baalbec backsheeish Bankes Belzoni boat Cairo calcarious camels cashiefs centre chamber columns cornice crew crossed cultivated Daoud Derry desert distance door doura Ebsambal edifice Egypt Egyptian eight El Arish excavations feet figures foot four front Gourna granite Greek Halleel Hamah Hassan head hieroglyphics hills hundred inches inclosed inscription Isis Jaffa janissary khan labours Lady Hester Stanhope latter Lebanon mameluke morning mountains nahr Narsah natives neighbourhood night Nile noticed Nubia observed open the temple opposite side ornamented Osiris Palmyra pashaw passed peristyle Philæ piastres pillars plain portico present pylon reis remains river road rock Roman ruins sailors Salt sanctuary sand second cataract seen sent Sheikh shew situated small temple square statues stone Syria Thebes thing told tomb took town travellers Tripoli Turks village wall
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Page 201 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Page 536 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
Page 533 - And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
Page 536 - And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
Page 539 - And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son : and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
Page 537 - Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country : we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells : we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
Page 538 - And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom...
Page 55 - Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease : The naked Negro, panting at the line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave.
Page 534 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Page 538 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.