New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 102Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1854 |
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... saline , sulphureous , and bituminous springs around the Dead Sea and in other places , are of a different order and class of phenomena to those which produced the lavas and pumice - stones which are 6 The Sites of the Doomed Cities .
... saline , sulphureous , and bituminous springs around the Dead Sea and in other places , are of a different order and class of phenomena to those which produced the lavas and pumice - stones which are 6 The Sites of the Doomed Cities .
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... stones which are found in the same neighbourhood . As Russegger , and Strabo long before him , justly remark , the moun- tains between Jerusalem and the Jordan , in the valley of the Jordan itself , and those around the Dead Sea , bear ...
... stones which are found in the same neighbourhood . As Russegger , and Strabo long before him , justly remark , the moun- tains between Jerusalem and the Jordan , in the valley of the Jordan itself , and those around the Dead Sea , bear ...
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... stones , and erected upon a mound , which M. de Sauley identifies with the Tharmara of Eusebius and Thaman of the Tables . There are extensive ruins around , and an abundant spring in the same neighbourhood . Hence the shores of the ...
... stones , and erected upon a mound , which M. de Sauley identifies with the Tharmara of Eusebius and Thaman of the Tables . There are extensive ruins around , and an abundant spring in the same neighbourhood . Hence the shores of the ...
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... stone , in the midst of which we soon recognised regular files , which are only the foundations of ancient walls . We are then most assuredly in the midst of recognisable and visible ruins , which exhibited themselves till fifty- six ...
... stone , in the midst of which we soon recognised regular files , which are only the foundations of ancient walls . We are then most assuredly in the midst of recognisable and visible ruins , which exhibited themselves till fifty- six ...
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... stones and interspersed with shrubs . At fifteen minutes past three we attain the extreme point of the Jibal Usdum , which terminates in a perpendicular cliff over a large and beautiful plain , dotted with mimosas , and stretching far ...
... stones and interspersed with shrubs . At fifteen minutes past three we attain the extreme point of the Jibal Usdum , which terminates in a perpendicular cliff over a large and beautiful plain , dotted with mimosas , and stretching far ...
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