Travels Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with Copperplates, Volume 2J. Ritchie, 1808 |
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... soil of Egypt , IV . Some additional proofs and conjec- tures , concerning the augmentation which Egypt receives annually from the Nile , V. Of the Egyptian Plants and Ani- mals , VI . Some additional Observations with re- gard to the ...
... soil of Egypt , IV . Some additional proofs and conjec- tures , concerning the augmentation which Egypt receives annually from the Nile , V. Of the Egyptian Plants and Ani- mals , VI . Some additional Observations with re- gard to the ...
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... soil , and borders upon the sea coast at Joppa , and a great way on each side of it , in a range of mountains and precipices . And it is , for the most part , in these high situations that we meet with the dens , the holes , or caves ...
... soil , and borders upon the sea coast at Joppa , and a great way on each side of it , in a range of mountains and precipices . And it is , for the most part , in these high situations that we meet with the dens , the holes , or caves ...
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... soil . Twelve miles further , in the same direction , are the pyramids , erected upon that ridge of the Libyan mountains which bounds the inundation of the Nile to the westward . The castle of Kairo has the like mountainous situation on ...
... soil . Twelve miles further , in the same direction , are the pyramids , erected upon that ridge of the Libyan mountains which bounds the inundation of the Nile to the westward . The castle of Kairo has the like mountainous situation on ...
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... which must have been looked upon as an extraordinary phenomenon at that time of the year . c . i . e & על שלשה סימנין מעבדין את השנה * Propter poning thereby the passover for at least the space of The Soil and Crop . 137.
... which must have been looked upon as an extraordinary phenomenon at that time of the year . c . i . e & על שלשה סימנין מעבדין את השנה * Propter poning thereby the passover for at least the space of The Soil and Crop . 137.
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... soil both of the maritime and inland parts of Syria and Phoenice , is of a light loamy nature , little different from that of Barbary , and rarely requires more than one pair of beeves to plough it . Besides all sorts of excellent grain ...
... soil both of the maritime and inland parts of Syria and Phoenice , is of a light loamy nature , little different from that of Barbary , and rarely requires more than one pair of beeves to plough it . Besides all sorts of excellent grain ...
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Page 337 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, As though they were not hers; Her labour is in vain without fear; Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Page 341 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: Her labour is in vain without fear; Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding. What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider.
Page 87 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Page 263 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs...
Page 52 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
Page 269 - They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ears; 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
Page 263 - ... the water, gushing out, is conducted from one rill to another by the gardener, who is always ready, as occasion requires, to stop and divert the torrent, by turning the earth against it by his foot, and at the same time opening, with his mattock, a new trench to receive it. A similar mode of irrigating lands obtains in the island of Cyprus
Page 205 - Pyramid, a chamber, in which there was a hollow stone : in it was a statue of stone like a man, and within it a man, upon whom was a breast-plate of gold set with jewels ; upon...
Page 108 - ... this channel a great number .of holes, some of them four or five inches deep, and one or two in diameter, the lively and demonstrative tokens of their having been formerly so many fountains. It likewise may be further observed, that art or chance could by no means be concerned in the contrivance, for every circumstance points out to us a miracle, and, in the same manner with the rent in the rock of Mount Calvary, at Jerusalem, never fails to produce a religious surprise in all who see it.
Page 205 - ... price, and at his head a carbuncle of the bigness of an egg, shining like the light of the day ; and upon him were characters written with a pen, no man knows what they signify.