Notes of a Clerical Furlough, Spent Chiefly in the Holy Land. With a Sketch of the Voyage Out1859 |
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... miles into the land , and is about five miles broad . The noble range of the Tarifa mountains bounds its western shore , and the ancient moorish - looking town of Algesiras lies at their feet . On the summit of the lower range of hills ...
... miles into the land , and is about five miles broad . The noble range of the Tarifa mountains bounds its western shore , and the ancient moorish - looking town of Algesiras lies at their feet . On the summit of the lower range of hills ...
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... Miles . 1 Soundings in feet . abruptly to the height of 1450 feet , and about three miles in length , shuts in the bay on the east . The town of Gibraltar lies at the base of the north - western face of the rock . The barracks and the ...
... Miles . 1 Soundings in feet . abruptly to the height of 1450 feet , and about three miles in length , shuts in the bay on the east . The town of Gibraltar lies at the base of the north - western face of the rock . The barracks and the ...
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... miles . The weather was still fine and the wind fair - too much so for rising to our highest speed . A vessel rigged fore and aft like ours can never make her best out of a following wind . On Thursday the wind , which had slackened ...
... miles . The weather was still fine and the wind fair - too much so for rising to our highest speed . A vessel rigged fore and aft like ours can never make her best out of a following wind . On Thursday the wind , which had slackened ...
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... miles . Subsequently the wind fell so much that our progress became considerably slower . Save the smoke of a solitary steamer , far away in the distance , we had seen nothing moving on the face of the waters since we left Malta . The ...
... miles . Subsequently the wind fell so much that our progress became considerably slower . Save the smoke of a solitary steamer , far away in the distance , we had seen nothing moving on the face of the waters since we left Malta . The ...
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... mile from the shore . From this point the distance is about three or four miles to the inner extremity of the harbour . The channel is very narrow , hemmed in as it is between this island on the one side , and a long line of reefs on ...
... mile from the shore . From this point the distance is about three or four miles to the inner extremity of the harbour . The channel is very narrow , hemmed in as it is between this island on the one side , and a long line of reefs on ...
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Page 249 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 205 - And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it. and brought it to David : nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
Page 344 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! Woe unto thee Bethsaida ! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 246 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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Page 318 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Page 138 - Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her : loose them, and bring them unto me. 3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them ; and straightway he will send them.