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The Desert of Sinai; Notes of a Spring-Journey from Cairo to Beersheba

The Desert of Sinai; Notes of a Spring-Journey from Cairo to Beersheba


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...came, shabby and dirty both in look and garb. He led us down by several flights of wooden steps in a poor state of repair, as indeed most things in the convent seemed to be. Through a low narrow passage, the stone-roof of which more than once struck unexpectedly on our heads, we made our way to the garden. As this was the month of January there was not much to be seen. The fruittrees were not in leaf; but the almond was covered with its bright pink and white blossom, --which adorned its naked boughs. It is the "watcher" for the spring, lying sleepless on its winter-couch, and then rushing forth in naked haste to salute the sun. Hence Jeremiah is made to use it as an emblem of the haste with which a longsuffering God would at last perform his strange act of judgment upon the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah. The fig-tree, too, was there, but with neither fruit nor leaf. The pomegranate was not in bud; but round its foot we picked up some of the old fruit of last year, --hard and dry. Only the cypress had on its dark verdure, rising in the midst of the wide-spreading trees, like a tall minaret above the arching dome. Are these all exotics, --Grecian or Persian exotics, --as some think? And is this garden altogether a thing of monas tic art and labour? Perhaps not. Feiran was an oasis of palms and nubks before one stone of its convent was laid; and it does not seem at all unlikely that there was some oasis here of almonds, and figs, and pomegranates in the days of Jethro. We met with several fig-trees growing wild in Howai, within a mile or two of this, which shew that these are not exotics. And whence came the almond-rods of Aaron and the tribal heads, if there were no such trees then in this region? Does not the selection of the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781154183467
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 110
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154183467
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 213 gr


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