Category: Travel Writing
Nearly every tourist in Palestine lands at Jaffa, and thence travels to Jerusalem. The open roadstead, the yellow dunes, the distant shadowy mountains, the brown town on its hillock, the palms, the orange-gardens and the picturesque crowd are familiar to very many of my reader...
I propose to conclude this volume by a slight sketch of the results which have been gathered by exploration in Palestine. In journals or memoirs the importance of these results...
3. CHAPTER III.The third province of Western Palestine is divided into two regions--Upper and Lower Galilee. Lower Galilee was surveyed in 1872 and 1875. Upper Galilee was completed in 1877 un...
1. CHAPTER I.Nearly every tourist in Palestine lands at Jaffa, and thence travels to Jerusalem. The open roadstead, the yellow dunes, the distant shadowy mountains, the brown town on its hil...
4. CHAPTER IV.The survey of Western Palestine was happily complete in 1877, and the map was out in the following year; but the Memoirs were still not half published when, in 1881, I was again...
6. CHAPTER VI.Palestine proper--from Dan to Beersheba--extends only over the southern half of the Syrian coast which runs northwards to the Bay of Alexandretta, distant 370 miles from Gaza. Y...
2. CHAPTER II.My first experiences of Palestine survey were from the camp at Nâblus,[35] the ancient Shechem. The method which we then employed was very little varied throughout the whole per...
5. CHAPTER V.North of Heshbon the country rises slightly, and we enter the region surrounding the large ruined city of ’Ammân--the Rabbath Ammon of the Bible and the Roman Philadelphia. This...