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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.
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