Three Years in the East: Being the Substance of a Journal Written During a Tour and Residence in Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey, In, 1829-1830, 1831, and 1832H. Colburn, 1837 - Palestine |
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Page 102 - And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him : upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Page 205 - Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen ; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Page 276 - Hamah, they mostly keep at a certain distance from the inhabited grounds. In these parts, they spend the whole summer seeking pasture and water, purchase in autumn their winter provision of wheat and barley, and return after the first rains into the interior of the Desert. They are the only...
Page 413 - ... where pleasure, assuming the character of religion, imperceptibly dissolved the firmness of manly virtue. But the groves of Daphne continued for many ages to enjoy the veneration of natives and strangers; the privileges of the holy ground were enlarged by the munificence of succeeding emperors; and every generation added new ornaments to the splendour of the temple.
Page 391 - Arabs, between this conjunction and the division made by the same river before it falls into the Persian sea. Other geographers have placed it in Armenia, between the sources of the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Araxes, and the Phasis, which they suppose to be the four rivers described by Moses.
Page 257 - The manufacture of sword-blades, for which Damascus was so long and so justly celebrated, no longer exists ; it was removed to Khorassan, in Persia, after the invasion of Tamerlane. They appear to have been made of thin lamina of steel and iron, welded together, so as to unite great flexibility with a keen edge. Those that are made now are of an inferior quality.
Page 215 - The dress of the women is a wide cotton gown of a dark colour — blue, brown, or black, fastened by a leathern girdle. Over their heads they wear a kerchief, called shauber or mekroune, the young females having it of a red colour, the old black.
Page 198 - ... neighbours, yet the war between two tribes is scarcely ever of long duration; peace is easily made, but again broken upon the slightest pretence. The Arab warfare is that of partisans; general battles are rarely fought: to surprise the enemy by a sudden attack, and to plunder a camp, are chief objects of both parties. This is the reason why their wars are bloodless ; the enemy is generally attacked by superior numbers, and he gives way without fighting, in hopes of retaliating on a weak encampment...
Page 168 - Sheikh, or of some of the head men of the village, which drives a family from their home, for they are always permitted to depart. This continued wandering is one of the principal reasons why no village in the Haouran has either orchards, or fruit-trees, or gardens for the growth of vegetables. "Shall we sow for strangers?
Page 142 - Peraa, strictly called; to which some geographers have added Decapolis. Abilene was the most northern of these provinces, being situated between the mountains of Libanus and Anti-Libanus, and deriving its name from the city Abila or Abela. Trachonitis was bounded by the desert on the east...