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... trees - Most remarkable shrubs and fruit - trees - Herbs , flowers , and garden vegetables - Zoology- Land animals - Birds - Marine and fresh - water fish - Principal shellfish - Minerals • PAGE . 1 30 CHAPTER III . THE PEOPLE - ORIGIN ...
... trees - Most remarkable shrubs and fruit - trees - Herbs , flowers , and garden vegetables - Zoology- Land animals - Birds - Marine and fresh - water fish - Principal shellfish - Minerals • PAGE . 1 30 CHAPTER III . THE PEOPLE - ORIGIN ...
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... tree was not only indigenous , but formed a leading and striking charac- teristic , everywhere along the low sandy shore lifting its tuft of feathery leaves into the bright blue sky , high above the undergrowth of fig , and pomegranate ...
... tree was not only indigenous , but formed a leading and striking charac- teristic , everywhere along the low sandy shore lifting its tuft of feathery leaves into the bright blue sky , high above the undergrowth of fig , and pomegranate ...
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... tree was first seen growing in rich abundance . The palm is the numismatic emblem of Aradus , ' and though not now very frequent in the region which Strabo calls ' the Aradian coast - tract , ' 2 must anciently have been among its chief ...
... tree was first seen growing in rich abundance . The palm is the numismatic emblem of Aradus , ' and though not now very frequent in the region which Strabo calls ' the Aradian coast - tract , ' 2 must anciently have been among its chief ...
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... trees and shrubs , partly at the present day 1 Renan , pp . 59 , 60 . 2 Kenrick ( Phoenicia , p . 8 ) , who quotes Burckhardt ( Syria , p . 161 ) , and Chesney ( Euphrates Expedi tion , i . 450 ) . 3 Renan , p . 59 : - ' C'est un im ...
... trees and shrubs , partly at the present day 1 Renan , pp . 59 , 60 . 2 Kenrick ( Phoenicia , p . 8 ) , who quotes Burckhardt ( Syria , p . 161 ) , and Chesney ( Euphrates Expedi tion , i . 450 ) . 3 Renan , p . 59 : - ' C'est un im ...
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... trees grow in clumps or singly , and there is nowhere , as in Lebanon , any dense growth , or even any considerable grove , of forest trees . But the beauty of the tract is conspicuous ; and if Carmel means , as some interpret , a ...
... trees grow in clumps or singly , and there is nowhere , as in Lebanon , any dense growth , or even any considerable grove , of forest trees . But the beauty of the tract is conspicuous ; and if Carmel means , as some interpret , a ...
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