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... present century by Movers and Kenrick . The elaborate work of the former writer1 collected into five moderate - sized volumes all the notices that classical antiquity had preserved of the Religion , History , Commerce , Art , & c . , of ...
... present century by Movers and Kenrick . The elaborate work of the former writer1 collected into five moderate - sized volumes all the notices that classical antiquity had preserved of the Religion , History , Commerce , Art , & c . , of ...
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... present perhaps the best cultivated and pro- ducing the most luxuriant crops , both of corn and weeds , of any in Palestine . ' " The Kishon waters it on the south , where it approaches Carmel , and is a broad stream , though easily ...
... present perhaps the best cultivated and pro- ducing the most luxuriant crops , both of corn and weeds , of any in Palestine . ' " The Kishon waters it on the south , where it approaches Carmel , and is a broad stream , though easily ...
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... present city , near the modern Khan - el- Kasimiyeh , whence it flows peaceably to the sea with many windings through a broad low tract of meadow- land . Other rills and rivulets descending from the west flank of the great mountain ...
... present city , near the modern Khan - el- Kasimiyeh , whence it flows peaceably to the sea with many windings through a broad low tract of meadow- land . Other rills and rivulets descending from the west flank of the great mountain ...
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... present is almost a desert . Nature , however , shows its capabilities by covering it in the spring- time from end to end with a ' carpet of flowers . ' From the edges of the plains , and sometimes from the very shore of the sea , rise ...
... present is almost a desert . Nature , however , shows its capabilities by covering it in the spring- time from end to end with a ' carpet of flowers . ' From the edges of the plains , and sometimes from the very shore of the sea , rise ...
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... present , though it contains rocky dells ' where there are thick jungles of copse , ' 2 and is covered in places with olive groves and thickets of dwarf oak , yet its appearance is rather that of a park than of a forest , long stretches ...
... present , though it contains rocky dells ' where there are thick jungles of copse , ' 2 and is covered in places with olive groves and thickets of dwarf oak , yet its appearance is rather that of a park than of a forest , long stretches ...
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