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Excerpt from Palestine, Historical and Descriptive: Or the Home of God's People
I'he Broad, Curved Valley called Wady Sheikh - Pass of the Winds - The Plain before Sinai a Lofty, Craggy Pile - A Wall Of Rock - Form and Structure of the Mountain - Discovery Of the Sinaitic Manuscript of the New Testament by Prof. Tischendorf - The Convent of the Forty - Con vent Of St. Catharine - Scene Of the Israelites' Encampment - Moses' Ascent - The Wilderness of Sinai - What Grows there - Silence of the Desert - Effect of a Thunder-storm - Elijah's Chapel - View from Sinai - The Stay Of the Israelites around the Mount - Their Journey North ward - The Spies - Kadesh Barnea - Scene of the First Contest - Region of the Edomites - Aaron's Burial-place - Route of the Spicy - Preliminary Survey of Palestine - Petra -approach to the Promised Land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
