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Plain of Sharon from Ramleh Tower - Minaret with 120 Steps, 1881

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Ancient Ashdod (*Eshdûd*) - Modern Village on Hill Near Sea, 1881

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The Upper Pool of Siloam. Its walls are covered with mosses and ferns, especially the maidenhair fern with which the picture is appropriately bordered, 1881

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Haifa & Acre Bay - *Castle Ruins & Coastal City View*, 1881

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Khan-ez-Zait, the great bazaar of the oil merchants, from the south, looking towards the street of the Damascus Gate, which is in full sunlight, 1881

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Ruined Fortress of Latrôn - Site of Ancient Church of Emmaus, 1881

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Jacob's Well, at the foot of Mount Gerizim. The true mouth of the well is in the floor of a little vaulted chamber below the surface of the ground, 1881

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View of the great sea from Athlît. Through a large pointed arch, which is only held in position by the extreme hardness and tenacity of the cement used in construction of this fortress., 1881

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Tell Hûm Ruins - Biblical Capernaum Site Debate, 1881

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Mount Tabor from Nain, showing its south-western slopes, dotted with dwarf oaks, locust, arbutts, lentisk, and terebinth trees, 1881

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Limestone Rocks at Ajeltûn, Lebanon - Chaos of Rugged Mountains, 1881

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Site of Laish, Later Called Dan - Tell el Kâdy, 1881

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Kishon River During Rainy Season - Oleanders and Small Birds, 1881

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The plain El Markeiyeh. At the mouth of Wâdy Taiyebeh, looking south and south-east towards the mountains of the Serbál group. The plain takes its name from the long white range of chalk hills called El Markhâ., 1881

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The hills of Samaria from Sûlem, the ancient Shunem. Zerîn (Jezreel) appears upon the plain below, and in the foreground there is a characteristic example of the Cactus Opuntia (prickly pear) in blossom, 1881

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Beidhat umm Tâkhah, a neighbor of Mount Serbál. In the foreground is the usual scene of preparation for a night's bivouac., 1881

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The springs in Wâdy Gharandel, probably the "Elim" of the Bible., 1881

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The tomb of Noah, at a place called Kerak Nûh. The so-called tomb is probably a portion of an ancient aqueduct., 1881

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Moslem sanctuary at the entrance to the Valley of Shechem. The wild flowers represented are a peculiar kind of scabious, the Scabiosa prolifera, and a fine salvia, the Eremostachys lacinata, 1881

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Neby Samwil, the ancient Mizpeh, the watchtower of Benjamin, from the village of El Jib, the ancient Gibeon, 1881

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The Nahr el Kelb (Dog River), and ancient bridge connected with the rock-cut coast. In the summer, the river is fordable here., 1881

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Castle of Museilihah - Brigand Stronghold Overlooking Nahr el Jozeh, 1881

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A well in a garden of Haifa, Showing a machine, called a sâkiyeh, raising water to fill the adjacent tank, on the right., 1881

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View from upper Beth-Horon, looking westward, to the Mediterranean Sea, at sunset, 1881

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Tell Hûm Ruins - Biblical Capernaum Site Debate, 1881

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Convent of Mount Carmel - Pilgrim House and Lighthouse, 1881

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'El Maharrad,' Pharan (Feirân). These ruins are all that remain of the great church and old monastic establishment of Pharan. The Bedawin grow small patches of maize, bearded wheat, and tobacco about here., 1881

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The Jaffa Gate. The chief entrance to the city of Jerusalem, as it appears from within the city walls. The open space within the gate is used as a market-place., 1881

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Cliffs of the Sîk, Petra. Showing the western outlet of the great defile opposite to the rock-cut amphitheatre represented on page 216., 1881

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Râs Abu Zenimeh. On a low promontory running out somewhat farther into the sea is placed the tomb of the saint. Unless it is rough the camels are made to take to the water instead of climbing the cliffs., 1881

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Old cypress trees in the Haram esh Sherif on the western side., 1881

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Sacred tree called Sheikh et Teim. South of the extensive mound of ruins and tombs known to the Arabs as Tibneh, but which has long been regarded as the site of Tinmath Sera, the city of Joshua., 1881

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Hermits' caves in the cliffs of the Kedron., 1881

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Bir Eyub - Job's Well, 1881

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Petra Amphitheater - *Rock-Hewn Seating & Ain Musa Brook*, 1881

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Rock-Cut Tomb or Temple at Petra - *El Khuzneh Far’on*, 1881

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The mountains of Moab from Engedi. At this point the Dead Sea is about nine miles in width. There is a continuous beach of varying breadth along the shore., 1881

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Gardens near the mouth of Wâdy Lejâ. The winding road seen in the cliffs leads up to Jebel Tiniyeh, where are the remains of the half-finished palace of the late 'Abbas Pasha., 1881

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A silhouette on the Nile. A group of the slate colored buffaloes of the country being watered is one of the commonest sights on the Nile., 1881

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Dead Sea from Engedi - Called *Bahr Lût* by Arabs, 1881

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Mount Hor. The scene of the death of Aaron, called by the Arabs Jebel Harûn, "the Mount of Aaron." Its highest point is about four thousand three hundred and sixty feet above the sea level., 1881

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Petra’s Detached Tombs - *Isolated Rock Mausoleums*, 1881

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Plains of Esdraelon - View from Mount Carmel, Jezreel in Distance, 1881

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'Ain Hawwârah. This may be the spring "Marah" of Exodus xv.23., 1881

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The village of Siloam from the tomb of St. James, shewing a portion of the great Jewish cemetery on the western slope of the Mount of Olives, 1881

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Bay of Beirût, 1881

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Ablutions After Meals - *Middle Eastern Cultural Practices*, 1881

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Virgin’s Tree - Gift to Empress Eugénie at Suez Canal Inauguration, 1881

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Tombs of the Memlûks." The whole of this region is dotted with gravestones and is still used as a burial ground., 1881

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Taleil-el-Fûl, from Neby Samwil, generally regarded as the Gibeah of Saul., 1881

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Defile of the Jebel Tíh. The long white range of the Tíh mountains, mostly of the same average height, forms the southern and south-eastern boundary of the great 'wilderness of the forty year's wanderings.', 1881

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A Bedouin of the Haurân. Bedouins (more correctly Bedawîn) occupy the north-west district of the Haurân; the plain is inhabited by peasants, and the Druses for many centuries have colonised the mountain range, 1881

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Street in Masr El-Atîkah. The man in the foreground is selling water flavored with orange blossom., 1881

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One of the 'Tombs of the Memlûks.' On Mount Mukattam. In the foreground is the musattah, or camel-litter, ordinarily used by pilgrims., 1881

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On the shore of the lake, at Et Tâbighah, the supposed site of Bethsaida, an oleander in full bloom grows among the rocks, and storks are characteristically hovering over the lake, 1881

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Nâblus and Gerizim from the south-western slopes of Ebal, just above a broad belt of olive-trees. The whole extent of the city and the western approaches to it are shown., 1881

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'Anâta, on the site of Anathoth. There are the remains of ancient foundations here, and the quarries still supply Jerusalem with building stone, 1881

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Oratories on the west side of the Haram esh Sherif, 1881

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Mountains at the head of Wâdy Lejâ., 1881

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Nablus, the ancient Shechem., 1881

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Crusader Castle at Tripoli, Later a Prison Under Midhat Pasha, 1881

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Water-Wheel (*Sâkiyeh*) for Irrigation - Palm-Fiber Ropes and Clay Jars, 1881

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Looking towards Tyre from Nâkûrah. An old olive-tree in the foreground and a Muslim cemetary on the hillside., 1881

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Bir Eyub - Job's Well, 1881

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Mount Carmel from Sepphoris, Site of Crusader Church, 1881

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The Dier, Petra. An isolated building on a lofty eminence north-west of the valley of Petra. It faces Mount Hor., 1881

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Bâb el Hawa (gate of the wind), on the summit of Mount Tabor. It was formerly part of a mediæval fortress, but now serves as an approach to the Latin monastery., 1881

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View from the top of the Great Pyramid, 1881

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Wâdy Feirân Alluvial Deposits - Ancient Nile Flood Meter, 1881

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Bûrada Gorge, French Road to Damascus, Irrigation Streams, 1881

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Wâdy Mukhateb, the "written valley" or "valley of inscriptions." The celebrated Sinaitic inscriptions abound in this valley on the right-hand side as one passes down., 1881

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The Summit of Neby Samwil. A woman carrying a goat-skin filled with water up the hill., 1881

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Landing at Jaffa - Arab Boats, No Natural Harbor, 1881

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Bâb Shurky (East Gate), Damascus - Ancient Roman Portal, 1881

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The Birket Mamilla, commonly called the Upper Pool of Gihon, surrounded by Moslem tombs. In the background the Jaffa Gate is shown, with the Citadel on the right and the Anglican Church on the left, 1881

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David's Well. Bethlehemite women filing goat-skins and water-jars, 1881

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Sea of Galilee - Et Tâbighah, Site of Bethsaida, 1881

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Scene in a Jaffa garden. Two women engaged in working a sâkiyeh, a clumsy machine for raising water from a well to fill a reservoir. On the branch of the pomegranate there is a chameleon., 1881

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Ruins on the summit of Mount Gerizim, on the site of the Samaritan temple. In the distance, on the right, the snow-covered peaks of Mount Hermon are visible, 1881

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A spring in Wâdy Feirân. To the Bedawin of Sinai, Feirân realizes paradise., 1881

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The Square and entrance into Tippoo's Palace, Bangalore, James Hunter

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Wâdy Sh'reich. One of the peaks in the Wâdy Sh'reich is called Jebel Abu Mahrúreh, "The thunder-stricken mountain," a large portion of its summit having been detached by a thunderbolt., 1881

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General View of 'Akka - Landscape with Carmel in the Distance, 1881

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Fountain of the Gate of the Chain - Bab es Silsileh, supplied with water from Solomon's Pools, 1881

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The Platform of the Dome of the Rock, showing one of the arcaded entrances on the north side. Mount Scopus in the distance, 1881

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Beit Jibrin Valley - Great Caves of Palestine, 1881

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Teku'a, the site of Tekoa. Showing the remains of a Byzantine church, and its massive baptismal font of octagonal form., 1881

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View from Tell Hûm, with fishing-boat. There is no sign of any harbour having been constructed here, and in stormy weather it would be difficult to effect a landing at this spot, 1881

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Mosques on Mukattam. Caverns and quarries are numerous on the slopes of the Mukattam hills, which are of nummulite foundation and extremely rich in fossils., 1881

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View from the ruins of the mediæval fortress at Latrôn; Valley of Ajalon from the west., 1881

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Hebron., 1881

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Cliffs and sculptured tablets. On the rocky promontory whoch projects far into the sea, south of Nahr el Kelb (Dog River), rising to the height of about one hundred feet., 1881

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Bâb Tûma, the Gate of Thomas. An inscription states that it was erected in A.H. 634 (A.D. 1237). It leads out of the city towards the north-east road, the caravan route to Aleppo and Palmyra., 1881

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Wâdy Amârah and Water Supply - Identification with Biblical Marah, 1881

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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., 1881

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Entrance to the cave of St. Saba, 1881

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Bowers at Banias - *Caesarea Philippi Summer Huts*, 1881

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Beit 'ur-et-Tahta, on the site of lower Beth-Horon, a Bedouin tent in the foreground. A woman preparing food, to be eaten at sunset, 1881

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Wâdy Feirân. Acacia seyal is the same as the shittim-tree. The Arabs lop these trees for charcoal, &c., in the cruellest and most unscientific manner., 1881

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Wâdy Useit. One can go down to the sea-shore by this valley, but the path is hardly passable for camels. There are clumps of stunted palms every here and there, and some brackish water., 1881

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