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... southern portion of the west Asian coast , where it verges towards Africa . From Jabneh ( Yebna ) southwards was Palestine , the country of the Philistines , perhaps even from Joppa ( Jaffa ) , which is made the boundary by Mela.1 Thus ...
... southern portion of the west Asian coast , where it verges towards Africa . From Jabneh ( Yebna ) southwards was Palestine , the country of the Philistines , perhaps even from Joppa ( Jaffa ) , which is made the boundary by Mela.1 Thus ...
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... southern foot of Carmel - a distance of nearly sixty miles -and watered by the Chorseas , the Kaneh , and other rivers . It is a smooth , very slightly undulating tract , about ten miles in width from the sea to the foot of the ...
... southern foot of Carmel - a distance of nearly sixty miles -and watered by the Chorseas , the Kaneh , and other rivers . It is a smooth , very slightly undulating tract , about ten miles in width from the sea to the foot of the ...
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... southern verge of the great plain of Esdraelon , a distance of about twenty - two miles . It is a limestone formation , and rises up abruptly from the side of the bay of Acre , with flanks so steep and rugged that the traveller must ...
... southern verge of the great plain of Esdraelon , a distance of about twenty - two miles . It is a limestone formation , and rises up abruptly from the side of the bay of Acre , with flanks so steep and rugged that the traveller must ...
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... southern headland of Phoenicia , is balanced in a certain sense by the extreme northern headland of Casius . Mount Casius is , strictly speak- ing , the termination of a spur from Bargylus ; but it has so marked and peculiar a character ...
... southern headland of Phoenicia , is balanced in a certain sense by the extreme northern headland of Casius . Mount Casius is , strictly speak- ing , the termination of a spur from Bargylus ; but it has so marked and peculiar a character ...
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... southern half of the range the descent is abrupt from the crest of the mountain into the Buka'a , or valley of the Litany , and the aspect of the mountain - side is one of unrelieved bareness . ' 2 There is , however , one beauty at one ...
... southern half of the range the descent is abrupt from the crest of the mountain into the Buka'a , or valley of the Litany , and the aspect of the mountain - side is one of unrelieved bareness . ' 2 There is , however , one beauty at one ...
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