A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1902 - 355 pages |
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... map far below and an enormous stretch of country dotted with villas , farmhouses , and even ancient castles that in past ages have been the scene of siege and sack . This expanse is divided into hundreds of vineyards and olive A TUSCAN ...
... map far below and an enormous stretch of country dotted with villas , farmhouses , and even ancient castles that in past ages have been the scene of siege and sack . This expanse is divided into hundreds of vineyards and olive A TUSCAN ...
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... maps as Tell Habesh - immediately to its rear appeared a tumulus - like eminence . Beyond this again the coast - line trends out to a sharp chalk - cliffed headland , known as the White Cape . Strangely dead and desolate in the fast ...
... maps as Tell Habesh - immediately to its rear appeared a tumulus - like eminence . Beyond this again the coast - line trends out to a sharp chalk - cliffed headland , known as the White Cape . Strangely dead and desolate in the fast ...
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... map showed the country as it had been when the kings of Israel ruled . The Turk listened and answered im- passively- " Your words cannot be true , for in those days they drew no maps , and therefore cannot have made these . For the rest ...
... map showed the country as it had been when the kings of Israel ruled . The Turk listened and answered im- passively- " Your words cannot be true , for in those days they drew no maps , and therefore cannot have made these . For the rest ...
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... Maps and Plans CLODD'S ( E. ) Story of Creation : a Plain Account of Evolution . With 77 Illustrations ... Conybeare ( Rev. W. J. ) and Howson's ( Very Rev. J. S. ) Life ... ... ... *** ... ... 3 6 ... 3 6 3 6 ... With 66 3 6 3 6 ... 3 ...
... Maps and Plans CLODD'S ( E. ) Story of Creation : a Plain Account of Evolution . With 77 Illustrations ... Conybeare ( Rev. W. J. ) and Howson's ( Very Rev. J. S. ) Life ... ... ... *** ... ... 3 6 ... 3 6 3 6 ... With 66 3 6 3 6 ... 3 ...
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... Maps and 23 Illustrations KNIGHT'S ( E. F. ) Where Three Empires Meet : a Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir , Western Tibet , Baltistan , Gilgit . With Map and 54 Illustrations ... ... ... ... 3 6 KNIGHT'S ( E. F. ) The ' Falcon ...
... Maps and 23 Illustrations KNIGHT'S ( E. F. ) Where Three Empires Meet : a Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir , Western Tibet , Baltistan , Gilgit . With Map and 54 Illustrations ... ... ... ... 3 6 KNIGHT'S ( E. F. ) The ' Falcon ...
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