 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 572 pagina’s
...strangers, the approach to it known only to the wandering Bedouins, was the ancient capital of his kingdom, the excavated city of Petra, the cursed and...before me, in barrenness and desolation ; no trees grew I'D the valley, and no verdure on the mountain-tops. • All was bare, dreary, and desolate." Vol.... | |
 | John L. Stephens - 1837 - 686 pagina’s
...was the ancient capital of his kingdom, the excavated city of Petra, the cursed and blighted Edotn of the Edomites. The land of Idumea lay before me, in barrenness and desolation ; no trees grew in the valley, and no verdure on the mountain-tops. All was bare, dreary, and desolate. But the beauty... | |
 | 1837 - 536 pagina’s
...strangers, the approach to it known only to the wandering Bedouins, was the ancient capital of his kingdom, the excavated city of Petra, the cursed and blighted Edom of the Edomites. The land ofldumea lay before me, in barrenness and desolation; no trees grew ID the valley, and no verdure on... | |
 | John Lloyd Stephens - 1838 - 716 pagina’s
...strangers, the approach to it known only to the wandering Bedouins, was the ancient capital of his kingdom, the excavated city of Petra, the cursed and blighted Edom of the Edomites. The land of fdumea lay before me, in barrenness and desolation ; no trees grew in the valley, and no verdure on... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 828 pagina’s
...strangers, the approach to it known only to the wandering Bedouins, was the ancient capital of his kingdom, the excavated city of Petra, the cursed and...me, in barrenness and desolation ; no trees grew in the valley, and no verdure on the mountain topi. All was bare, dreary, and desolate." Pursuing a route... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 820 pagina’s
...Bedouins, was the ancient capital of his kingdom, the excavated city of Petra, the cursed and blighted Edam of the Edomites. The land of Idumea lay before me, in barrenness and desolation ; no trees grew in the vnlley, and no verdure on the mountain tops. All was bare, dreary, and desolate." Pursuing a route... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 734 pagina’s
...sandy valley of Akaba, " -with high, dark, and barren mountains, bounding it like a wall." He says, " The land of Idumea lay before me in barrenness and desolation ; no trees grew in the valley, and no verdure on the mountain tops. All was bare and desolate." • Mountains of Judasa.... | |
 | James Smith - 1843 - 728 pagina’s
...uplifted arm, or whether his sword had indeed come down upon the people of his curse to judgment." " The land of Idumea lay before me in barrenness and desolation ; no trees grew on the valley and no verdure on the mountain tops. All was bare, dreary and desolate." Jeremiah also... | |
 | 1846 - 498 pagina’s
...speaks of the "sandy valley of Akabah, with high, stern, and barren mountains bounding it like a wall." "The land of Idumea lay before me in barrenness and desolation : no tree grew in the valley, and no verdure on the mountain-top : all was bare, dry, and desolate." But... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1849 - 498 pagina’s
...Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion." — Isa. xvi. 1. APPROACH TO PETRA. " The land of Idumea lay before me, in barrenness and desolation; no trees grew in the valley, and no verdure on the mountain-tops. All was bare, dreary, and desolate . . . " (We reached)... | |
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... barren mountains, bounding it like a wall. On the left were the mountains of Judea, and on the right those of Seir, the portion given to Esau as an inheritance ; and among them, buried from the eyes of strangers, the approach to it known only to the... 
