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Badoureau Ed Wood Engraver

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Ruins of crusaders' church at El Bîreh, the ancient Beeroth. Nothing is left of this building but its three apses, the north wall, and a fragment of the south wall. The space within is now converted into a corn-field

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Ancient synagogue, Meirôn, situated on the top of an overhanging cliff, which was levelled artificially. Only the south front is now standing.

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Remains of a Roman aqueduct at Bâniâs (Cæsarea Philippi), overgrown with thistles and reeds, and crowned with an evergreen oak

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The fallen column, Ba'albek. In the peristyle on the south side of the Temple of the Sun, where only four connected columns remain in situ. Several shafts have fallen from the temple platform into the little orchard below.

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Ruined mosque, north of Ba'albek. Rudely built of ancient materials. There are ten columns of polished red granite and eighteen limestone columns, all surmounted by richly carved limestone capitals.

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Engedi, the fountain of the Kid ('Ain Jidy). The sparkling limpid water is warm, rather sweet and impregnated with lime. To the left there is an example of the remarkable esclepiad called in Arabic 'osher ; it bears a bladder-like fruit filled with long silky hairs, used by Arabs as tinder for their matchlocks.

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Shrine of Sheikh Samat at Sur'ah (Zorah), on the summit of the hill. Below is shown the upper part of the Wâdy es Su'ar (Vally of Sorek), which falls into the river called Nahr Rubîn.

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The Dead Sea, looking north-east from Engedi. Anciently called the Salt Sea and the Sea of the Plain. The name Dead Sea, now so familiar, does not occur in the Bible ; it was adopted by Greek and Roman writers in the second century of our era. The Arabs call this sea Bahr Lût (Sea of Lot.)

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Rocks in the ravine of Sarâbit el Khâdim. And a natural gallery in the same ravine. Wind and storm have worn these sandstone rocks into the most fantastic shapes.

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Tamarisk- tree, Wâdy Feirân, Sinai. "And the sleep in the dried river channel, where bulrushes tell/ That the water was wont to go warbling so softly and well." -- Browining's "Saul."

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The temple of Kom Ombo, Half buried in sand-drifts, and half fallen over the river bank, the temple of Kom Ombo is one of the lonliest, and, at a distance, the most impressive of the smaller shrines of Egypt.

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