A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, Bind 10Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme (etc.), 1811 |
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... town confifts of huts built in the ordinary ftyle . Near the fea , ftands a small citadel , which could not prove a very ftrong defence . This city has alfo its patron faint , Sheich Sddik , who is honoured with due veneration . At ...
... town confifts of huts built in the ordinary ftyle . Near the fea , ftands a small citadel , which could not prove a very ftrong defence . This city has alfo its patron faint , Sheich Sddik , who is honoured with due veneration . At ...
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... town among the Muffulmans , In no other city had our phyfician better practice . As he was unwilling to go out on account of the mob , the fick were brought to him in their beds ; and an inhabitant of this town accompanied us to Sana ...
... town among the Muffulmans , In no other city had our phyfician better practice . As he was unwilling to go out on account of the mob , the fick were brought to him in their beds ; and an inhabitant of this town accompanied us to Sana ...
Side 110
... Towns in the Imam's Dominions . IN the travels of our whole party , and in my own feparate excurfions , I traverfed a ... town , with a district of confiderable extent , in which are a number of independent Schiechs , Schiechs , lies ...
... Towns in the Imam's Dominions . IN the travels of our whole party , and in my own feparate excurfions , I traverfed a ... town , with a district of confiderable extent , in which are a number of independent Schiechs , Schiechs , lies ...
Side 111
... town of confiderable fize . Manacha is alfo a confiderable town , and famous for its fairs . It is the feat of the Dola of Harras . In the heart of his government lies the diftrict of Safan , in which Schiech Mecrami has an almoft ...
... town of confiderable fize . Manacha is alfo a confiderable town , and famous for its fairs . It is the feat of the Dola of Harras . In the heart of his government lies the diftrict of Safan , in which Schiech Mecrami has an almoft ...
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... towns gained by purchases and fales , and the Bedouins by hiring out their camels . There is , therefore , the ... town , from which incenfe , called in Arabia Oliban or Liban , is exported . This incenfe is not nearly fo good as ...
... towns gained by purchases and fales , and the Bedouins by hiring out their camels . There is , therefore , the ... town , from which incenfe , called in Arabia Oliban or Liban , is exported . This incenfe is not nearly fo good as ...
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Side 395 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD : or who shall rise up in His holy place ? Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart : and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour.
Side 344 - It consisted of a plank of stone of about six inches in thickness, and in its other dimensions equalling the size of an ordinary door, or somewhat less. It was carved in such a manner, as to resemble a piece of wainscot. The stone of which it was made was visibly of...
Side 363 - Master, it is good for us to be here : let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, one for Moses, and one for Elias : not knowing what he said.
Side 334 - We were sufficiently instructed by experience, what the holy Psalmist means by the dew of Hermon, our tents being as wet with it, as if it had rained all night.
Side 675 - Sagar is a fine sheet of clear water, about half a mile long and a quarter of a mile broad.
Side 462 - It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down unto the beard : even unto Aaron's beard, and went down to the skirts of his clothing.
Side 390 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter : therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Side 322 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.
Side 311 - Jews ; being such proteuses in religion, that nobody was ever able to discover what shape or standard their consciences are really of. All that is certain concerning them is, that they make very much and good wine, and are great drinkers.
Side 336 - ... husband's embraces ? He said they were plants of a large leaf, bearing a certain sort of fruit, in shape resembling an apple, growing ripe in harvest, but of an ill savour, and not wholesome. But the virtue of them was to help conception, being laid under the genial bed. That the women were often wont to apply it, at this day, out of an opinion of its prolifick virtue. Of these plants I saw several afterwards in the way to Jerusalem...