The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, Volume 9J. Murray, 1839 "List of geographical works and maps recently published" in vol. 6-11. |
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Page 291 - ... less easy to perceive, that the lower portions, for the most part, are of an earlier date. These are composed, generally, of very large stones, many of them twenty feet and more in length by five or six feet thick, hewn in a peculiar manner. At the first view of these walls I was led to the conviction that these lower portions had belonged to the ancient temple, and were to be referred back at least to the time of Herod, if not to the days of Nehemiah or Solomon. This conviction was afterwards...
Page 422 - In that part of Egypt lying to the S. of the Delta, the banks of the Nile are much more elevated than the land of the interior at a distance from the river, and they are seldom quite covered with water even during the highest inundations. Little, however, projects above the level of the stream, and in some places the peasant is obliged to keep out the water by temporary embankments. This may be accounted for partly by the continued cultivation of the banks...
Page 422 - These elevated roads, the sole mode of communication by land from one village to another during the inundation, commence on a level with the bank of the river, and, as they extend to the interior, rise to so great a height above the fields, as to leave room for the construction of arches for the passage of the water...
Page 291 - This arch could only have belonged to THE BRIDGE, which according to Josephus led from this part of the temple to the Xystus on Zion ; and it proves incontestably the antiquity of that portion of the wall from which it springs.
Page 353 - Now, the temperature of any part of the earth's surface depends mainly on its exposure to the sun's rays. Whenever the sun is above the horizon of any place, that place is receiving heat; when below, parting with it, by the process called radiation ; and the whole quantities received and parted with in the year...
Page 509 - There is no landing or beach on this land ; in fact, but for the bare rocks where the icebergs had broken from, we should scarce have known it for land at first, but, as we stood in for it, we plainly perceived smoke arising from the mountain tops. It is evidently volcanic, as the specimens of stone, or cinders, will prove.
Page 290 - Joseph in Egypt. Here Samuel made his sons judges ; and from here Elijah wandered out into the southern desert, and sat down under a shrub of Retem, just as our Arabs sat down under it every day and every night.
Page 282 - And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise : and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses : and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
Page 287 - For the first two days, the general character of this desert was similar to that between Cairo and Suez, — a vast unbounded plain, a hard gravelly soil, irregular ridges of limestone hills in various directions, the mirage, and especially the Wadys or water-courses. All our Arabs gave to this part of the desert the name Et-Tih, the desert of wandering. The Wadys are here frequent ; at first they all ran...
Page 296 - Our route now lay along the base of the cliffs ; and after resting for a time at a fine, gushing fountain, we came in two hours to the mouth of Wady Jib, a deep valley coming down from the South through the cliffs ; and showing the latter to be only an offset between the lower plain which we had just crossed, and the higher level of the same great valley further South. The name El Ghor is applied to the valley between the Dead Sea and this offset ; further South the whole of the broad valley takes...