El Buwieb, the "gate" of Feirân. A narrow passage between the rocks, about one hundred feet by twenty long.

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Hajar el Lagweh, "The speaking stone." A rock covered with Sinaitic inscriptions in Wâdy Berrah, "The valley of the passer-out." From this valley you pass into a more open country and leave the sandstone district.

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1881 - 1883

Wilson, Charles William, Sir (1836-1905), Author

Harley, Wood engraver

Woodward, John Douglas (1846-1924), Artist

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New York Public Library

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Where the Civil War began - Fort Sumter and distant main land in right, Charleston, S.C.

Where the Civil War began - Fort Sumter and distant main land in right, Charleston, S.C.

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The Gateway, entrance to the Garden of the Gods, and Pike's Peak ten miles distant.

The large stone in the quarry, Ba'albek called the Hajr el Hûbla. It is sixty-eight feet four inches in length. On the under side it is cut away all round, remaining attached to the bed of the rock in the middle along its entire length.

Rock tombs or Gebel-es-Silsileh. At this point the Nile is scarcely eleven hundred feet wide. The rocky barrier through which the river has forced its way is honeycombed with grottoes of the time of the great Theban dynasties.

El Kûweh, the natural bridge over the Lîtâny. It is formed of a number of fallen rocks, which have left a passage of about one hundred feet in height for the stream below

Gateway to the Temple of the Sun, Ba'albek. It is twenty-one feet in width, and forty-two feet high. The modern masonry, which supports the displaced keystone, conceals the crested eagle carved upon its soffit.

Râs el Abyad (White Cape), the ladder of Tyre. From the south side. The rock-cut undulating road. with its shallow steps, is in many places nearly two hundred feet above the sea.

The Lone Rock, in the Garden of the Gods. (60 feet high, 6,124 fett above the sea level.)

Rock-cut tomb or temple, Petra. Eighty-five feet in height. It is called by the Arabs El Khuzneh Far'on, 'The treasures of Pharoah,' which is said to be concealed in the urn-shaped finial at the summit. The portal leads into a lofty chamber twelve yards square.

Hajar el Lagweh, "The speaking stone." A rock covered with Sinaitic inscriptions in Wâdy Berrah, "The valley of the passer-out." From this valley you pass into a more open country and leave the sandstone district.

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label_outline Explore Feiran, Wadis, Harley Wood Engraver

Gate of the Highlands. New York Sterecope Card.

In the shoe bazaar. This was formerly a school, an interesting building now in a very dilapadated condition. The gateway, however, is still preserved.

The temple at Deir el 'Ashâir. It stands on a platform of massive masonry, one hundred and twenty-six feet long by sixty-nine feet wide, and about twenty feet high on the eastern side, which faces Mount Hermon. The village is inhabited by a few families of Druses and Christians.

Fourth map of Africa (Egypt and Sinai), in full gold border.

Old curiosity shop, 14-line holograph transcription by Dickens of passage on the death of Little Nell

The rocks at Sarâbít el Khâdim ; and the temple enclosure. There are two temples, of different dates. The one not shown here is formed of two chambers excavated in the rock, having a walled continuation in front.

Western view of the Golden Gate.

View from upper Beth-Horon, looking westward, to the Mediterranean Sea, at sunset

View of Hell Gate the entrance from Long Island Sound to New York

Manitou series: Gate to Garden of the Gods.

Looking out from the 'Golden Gate,' Yellowstone Park, Wyoming.

Golden Gate, San Francisco, Calif.

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