Sacred Geography: Or, A Gazetteer of the Bible. Containing, in Alphabetical Order, a Geographical Description of All the Countries, Kingdoms, Nations and Tribes of Men, with All the Villages, Towns, Cities, Provinces, Hills, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Seas, and Islands, Mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures, Or Apocrypha, Including an Account of the Religion, Government, Population, Fulfilment of Prophecies, and Present Condition of the Most Important PlacesSamuel T. Armstrong, 1813 - 522 pages |
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... remains , but a heap of rains . However , the walls are still standing ; but within these walls , there is no thing but gardens , ruins , and shattered houses . The river Orontes runs near the city on the outside . The Bishop of Antioch ...
... remains , but a heap of rains . However , the walls are still standing ; but within these walls , there is no thing but gardens , ruins , and shattered houses . The river Orontes runs near the city on the outside . The Bishop of Antioch ...
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... remains always at home , but he has assumed the title of supreme pontiff of their religion ; and employs , as his deputy , Abd al Azir , and though eighty years of age , he prophecies that he shall not die , till the Wahaby religion is ...
... remains always at home , but he has assumed the title of supreme pontiff of their religion ; and employs , as his deputy , Abd al Azir , and though eighty years of age , he prophecies that he shall not die , till the Wahaby religion is ...
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... remains always at home , but he has assumed the title of supreme pontiff of their religion ; and employs , as his deputy , Abd al Azir , and though eighty years of age , he prophecies that he shall not die , till the Wahaby religion is ...
... remains always at home , but he has assumed the title of supreme pontiff of their religion ; and employs , as his deputy , Abd al Azir , and though eighty years of age , he prophecies that he shall not die , till the Wahaby religion is ...
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... remains of Noah's ark are still to be seen upon the top of this mountain . John Strue in his voyages , assures us , that he went up to the highest part of it , and that an hermit , who abode there , declared to him , that some broken ...
... remains of Noah's ark are still to be seen upon the top of this mountain . John Strue in his voyages , assures us , that he went up to the highest part of it , and that an hermit , who abode there , declared to him , that some broken ...
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... remains of Noah's ark were still to be seen in his time , in the canton of Abdiabene , called Caron , a country remarkable for pro- ducing great plenty of cinna- mon . That part of the mountains of Ararat , on which the ark rested is ...
... remains of Noah's ark were still to be seen in his time , in the canton of Abdiabene , called Caron , a country remarkable for pro- ducing great plenty of cinna- mon . That part of the mountains of Ararat , on which the ark rested is ...
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