The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Band 2H. Colburn, 1845 - 2 Seiten |
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... PYRAMIDS . - The Tombs - Midnight exploring- Robber Arabs - Date of Pyramids — Legends — Rhoda Island - Farewells CHAPTER XXXIII . MODERN ALEXANDRIA . - Voyage from Cairo - -Transit of the Desert - Alexandria CHAPTER XXXIV . PAGE Ι ...
... PYRAMIDS . - The Tombs - Midnight exploring- Robber Arabs - Date of Pyramids — Legends — Rhoda Island - Farewells CHAPTER XXXIII . MODERN ALEXANDRIA . - Voyage from Cairo - -Transit of the Desert - Alexandria CHAPTER XXXIV . PAGE Ι ...
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... PYRAMIDS . Instead of useful works , like nature great , Enormous , cruel wonders crushed the land . ANON . Upon the desert's edge , as last I lay , Before me rose , in wonderful array , Those works where man has rivalled Nature most ...
... PYRAMIDS . Instead of useful works , like nature great , Enormous , cruel wonders crushed the land . ANON . Upon the desert's edge , as last I lay , Before me rose , in wonderful array , Those works where man has rivalled Nature most ...
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... Pyramids had become as familiar to our view as the Grampians to a Highlander , when we suddenly recollected that we had left them unexplored , while the days of our stay at Cairo were already numbered . Our donkeys , which stood at our ...
... Pyramids had become as familiar to our view as the Grampians to a Highlander , when we suddenly recollected that we had left them unexplored , while the days of our stay at Cairo were already numbered . Our donkeys , which stood at our ...
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... pyramids into fine relief against the gilded sky . There was a brilliant moon that rendered the absence of the day - god a matter of indifference , except in an orna- mental point of view ; and even for this purpose , the pale soft ...
... pyramids into fine relief against the gilded sky . There was a brilliant moon that rendered the absence of the day - god a matter of indifference , except in an orna- mental point of view ; and even for this purpose , the pale soft ...
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... Pyramid . This advantage of ground has been but little noticed by travellers , and yet it gives an additional elevation to the site of the Pyramid of at least forty feet above the surrounding plain . Vast as these Pyramids appear at a ...
... Pyramid . This advantage of ground has been but little noticed by travellers , and yet it gives an additional elevation to the site of the Pyramid of at least forty feet above the surrounding plain . Vast as these Pyramids appear at a ...
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afterwards Alexandria ancient appeared Arab arms Baalbec beautiful Bedouin beneath Beyrout bright Cairo camels caravan Christian church cliffs coffee Constantinople convent Damascus dark Dead Sea desert distance divan dragoman dress Druses Egypt Egyptian Emir encampment enclosure England English faith feet gallop gardens Greek groves hills Holy horses Ibrahim Pasha inhabitants Jaffa Jerusalem Jews Jordan khan labour land Lebanon light looked luxury Mameluke marble Maronite Mehemet Mehemet Ali miles monks morning Moslem Mount Mount of Olives mountain never night once palace Palestine Pasha passed path picturesque pilgrims pipe plain pleasant Porte Pyramids rocks rocky rode round ruins Saracens scarcely scene scenery seemed Sepulchre servants shade Sheikh shore Sidon soon spirit spot steep stood streets Sultan Syrian Temple tent terraces tomb towers town traveller tribes turban Turkish Turks valley village walls wandered waves wild women