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... feet below the present level . And much that does not lie as deep as this is either built into or covered by houses . In spite of all that has been done by the engineers of the Palestine Exploration Fund , or by the independent ...
... feet below the present level . And much that does not lie as deep as this is either built into or covered by houses . In spite of all that has been done by the engineers of the Palestine Exploration Fund , or by the independent ...
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... feet and to stand afar off . In one way or another the remains of the first century are , for us , for the most part practically buried . But even where they come to sight , it is by no means easy to distinguish and identify them . For ...
... feet and to stand afar off . In one way or another the remains of the first century are , for us , for the most part practically buried . But even where they come to sight , it is by no means easy to distinguish and identify them . For ...
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... feet in height , with a few clefts in it , where ravines come down to the sea . Of these ravines the most considerable is the Wâdy Semak , a little north of midway up the side . At the mouth of this ravine I had pointed out to me a tiny ...
... feet in height , with a few clefts in it , where ravines come down to the sea . Of these ravines the most considerable is the Wâdy Semak , a little north of midway up the side . At the mouth of this ravine I had pointed out to me a tiny ...
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... feet of accumu- lated rubbish in the well itself , is a far better and more constant supply of water . There can , therefore , be little doubt that rain - water plays a large part in the supply of this well , and that the keen and ...
... feet of accumu- lated rubbish in the well itself , is a far better and more constant supply of water . There can , therefore , be little doubt that rain - water plays a large part in the supply of this well , and that the keen and ...
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... feet above the level of the lake ) on which is planted the town of Safed , the typical and traditional ' city set on a hill ' . ' This configuration may be said to begin at Magdala , which lies at the foot of the bold crags Ķal ' at Ibn ...
... feet above the level of the lake ) on which is planted the town of Safed , the typical and traditional ' city set on a hill ' . ' This configuration may be said to begin at Magdala , which lies at the foot of the bold crags Ķal ' at Ibn ...
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Page 98 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a tropic sky Might well be dangerous food For him, a youth to whom was given So much of earth — so much of heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 98 - Whatever in those Climes he found Irregular in sight or sound Did to his mind impart A kindred impulse, seemed allied To his own powers, and justified The workings of his heart.
Page 22 - And they had a few small fishes : and having blessed them, he commanded to set these also before them.
Page 28 - The name, however, pronounced by Bedawin Arabs is so similar to Gergesa, that, to all my inquiries for this place, they invariably said it was at Chersa, and they insisted that they were identical, and I agree with them in this opinion.
Page 56 - Interius uero ciuitati sunt piscinae gemellares, quinque porticos habentes, quae appellantur Betsaida. Ibi aegri multorum annorum sanabantur. Aquam autem habent hae piscinae in modum coccini turbatam...
Page 44 - ... for besides the good temperature of the air, it is also watered from a most fertile fountain. The people of the country call it Capharnaum. Some have thought it to be a vein of the Nile, because it produces the Coracin fish as well as that lake does which is near to Alexandria.
Page 44 - Some have thought it to be a vein of the Nile, because it produces the Coracin fish as well as that lake does which is near to Alexandria. The length of this country extends itself along the banks of this lake that bears the same name for thirty furlongs, and is in breadth twenty, And this is the nature of that place.
Page 35 - Beisdn (Scythopolis), there is a remarkable group of seven springs, all lying within a radius of a quarter of a mile, which answers to the description "many waters.
Page 28 - ... swine, rushing madly down it, could not stop, but would be hurried on into the water and drowned. The place is one which our Lord would be likely to visit, having Capernaum in full view to the north, and Galilee
Page 99 - ... on the one hand to the Mediterranean and on the other to the yet deeper trench of the Jordan ; it is this succession of ' Pisgah views ' that puts its stamp upon the landscape of Palestine, and this also — Dr.