A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem ... 1697. Also, a journal from Grand Cairo to mount Sinai, and back again, tr. from a MS. written by the prefetts of Egypt, by R. Clayton

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Сторінка 143 - enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. What truth there may be in this conjecture, I cannot absolutely pronounce. As to the pools, it is probable enough, they may be
Сторінка 223 - of its boughs. At about five or six yards from the ground, it was divided into five limbs, each of which was equal to a great tree. After about half an hour spent in surveying this place, the clouds began to thicken, and to fly along upon the ground ; • which so obscured the road, that
Сторінка 282 - with mine hand •while I pass by; and I will take away mine hand, and thou shall see my back parts, but my face shall not be seen. And accordingly
Сторінка 281 - said, behold there is a place by me, and thou shall stand upon a rock ; and it shall come to pass while my glory passelh by, that
Сторінка 128 - outward. On the left hand looking down in a deep valley, as we passed along, we saw some ruins of small cells and cottages : which they told us were formerly the habitations of hermits retiring hither for penance and mortification. And certainly there could not be found in the whole earth a more comfortless and
Сторінка 143 - garden, alluded to in the same place of the Canticles before cited. A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. What
Сторінка 141 - As for the pools, they are three in number, lying in a row above each other; being so disposed, that the waters of the uppermost may descend into the second, and those of the second into the third. Their figure is quadrangular ; the breadth is the same in all,
Сторінка 137 - nor was there any tree to be seen near the lake, from which one might expect such a kind of. fruit*; which induces me to believe, that there may be a greater deceit in this fruit, than that which is usually reported of it; and that its very being, as well as its beauty, is a
Сторінка 80 - castle : besides which you see nothing here but a mere Babel of broken walls pillars, vaults, &c. there being not so much as one entire house left. Its present inhabitants are only a few poor wretches, harbouring themselves in the vaults, and subsisting chiefly upon fishing ; who seem to be preserved in this place by Divine Providence, as a visible argument, how God has
Сторінка 61 - by the violence of the rain, and not by any stain from Adonis's blood. In an hour and a quarter from this river, we passed over the foot of the mountain Climax, where having gone through a very rugged and uneven pass, we came into a large bay called Junia. At the first entrance into the bay, is an old stone bridge, which appoints

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