ISBN: 123599578X

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Paperback, [EAN: 9781235995781], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ... last of them. We will soon begin the descent from this desolate plain towards the river, and there the road winds through cretaceous hills of dazzling whiteness, not a little painful to weak eyes. It will bring us in half an hour to the carriage-road, constructed by the French company, from Beirut to Damascus, and to the substantial bridge over the Barada at the village of Dummar. How invigorating and refreshing is the sight of this river of Damascus, with its green valley everywhere so full of trees! Here at Dummar is the first station from Damascus on the Company's road, and the necessary buildings that have been put up contrast very strangely with the miserable houses of the natives, and the so-called villas of wealthy Damascenes. A path from this place leads up the rocky ridge on the left, and many travellers ascend that steep and winding way, in order to obtain their first view of the city and its surroundings from Kubbet en Nusr, on the summit of Jebel Kasyun. It commands the best view of Damascus; and ever since the Muhammedan era that shrine has been associated with the traditional visit of the false prophet to that terrestrial paradise. It has taken us half an hour to climb up to this place from the bridge at Dummar, and there to the right, on the brow of the eastern ridge, is the white-domed Wely of en Nusr. Let us ascend to it and survey the enchanted scene far, far below. Remember that here you are nearly four thousand feet above the sea, and about five hundred feet over the plain and the city, which is at least a mile and a half distant in a straight line--This is the place. Stand still, my steed; Let me review the scene.1 We have passed through the land from Bcersheba to Dan, and around the majestic heights of Hermon, and over goodly Lebanon ..., 4873, Ancient Civilizations, 4874, Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer, 4875, Aztec, 4878, Egypt, 4880, Greece, 4881, Incan, 4882, Mayan, 16252591, Mesopotamia, 15812131, Prehistory, 4883, Rome, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 5035, World, 15812171, Civilization & Culture, 3825131, Expeditions & Discoveries, 4992, Jewish, 11764653011, Maritime History & Piracy, 6343224011, Religious, 16244141, Slavery & Emancipation, 15812211, Women in History, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 11495, Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses, 11773, Foreign Language Study & Reference, 21, Reference, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 11811, Instruction, 11773, Foreign Language Study & Reference, 21, Reference, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 123599578X

Paperback, [EAN: 9781235995781], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purch… Mehr…

Paperback, [EAN: 9781235995781], RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Book, [PU: RareBooksClub.com], RareBooksClub.com, This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ... last of them. We will soon begin the descent from this desolate plain towards the river, and there the road winds through cretaceous hills of dazzling whiteness, not a little painful to weak eyes. It will bring us in half an hour to the carriage-road, constructed by the French company, from Beirut to Damascus, and to the substantial bridge over the Barada at the village of Dummar. How invigorating and refreshing is the sight of this river of Damascus, with its green valley everywhere so full of trees! Here at Dummar is the first station from Damascus on the Company's road, and the necessary buildings that have been put up contrast very strangely with the miserable houses of the natives, and the so-called villas of wealthy Damascenes. A path from this place leads up the rocky ridge on the left, and many travellers ascend that steep and winding way, in order to obtain their first view of the city and its surroundings from Kubbet en Nusr, on the summit of Jebel Kasyun. It commands the best view of Damascus; and ever since the Muhammedan era that shrine has been associated with the traditional visit of the false prophet to that terrestrial paradise. It has taken us half an hour to climb up to this place from the bridge at Dummar, and there to the right, on the brow of the eastern ridge, is the white-domed Wely of en Nusr. Let us ascend to it and survey the enchanted scene far, far below. Remember that here you are nearly four thousand feet above the sea, and about five hundred feet over the plain and the city, which is at least a mile and a half distant in a straight line--This is the place. Stand still, my steed; Let me review the scene.1 We have passed through the land from Bcersheba to Dan, and around the majestic heights of Hermon, and over goodly Lebanon ..., 4873, Ancient Civilizations, 4874, Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer, 4875, Aztec, 4878, Egypt, 4880, Greece, 4881, Incan, 4882, Mayan, 16252591, Mesopotamia, 15812131, Prehistory, 4883, Rome, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 5035, World, 15812171, Civilization & Culture, 3825131, Expeditions & Discoveries, 4992, Jewish, 6343224011, Religious, 16244141, Slavery & Emancipation, 15812211, Women in History, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 11495, Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses, 11773, Foreign Language Study & Reference, 21, Reference, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 11811, Instruction, 11773, Foreign Language Study & Reference, 21, Reference, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 123599578X

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ISBN: 9781235995781

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William McClure Thomson, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books, Foreign Language Study~~General, The-Land-and-the-Book-or-Biblical-Illustrations-Drawn-from-the-Manners-and-Customs-the-Scenes-and-Scenery-of-the-Holy-Land-by-William-M-Thomson~~William-McClure-Thomson, 999999999, The Land and the Book; or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy Land,, William McClure Thomson, 123599578X, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<