A Man from Bethlehem. Oriental Scences of travel in Palestine.

6/18/16
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A Man from Bethlehem.

A Man from Bethlehem.

Source: Oriental and Sacred Scences, from notes of travel in Greece, Turkey and Palestine by Howe Fisher. Published 1854.

Continuing

Convent of Mar Saba. The Holy Laura of Saint Sabbas. Palestine.
The largest of the cedars of Lebanon. Mount Lebanon.
The Holy Land. Jerusalem from the road leading to Bethany.
View of the Damascus Gate, leading into Jerusalem.
The Greek Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.
General view of Beirut with a wide view over the sea and Mount Lebanon.
Jaffa, ancient Joppa, as the chief harbour of Judaea.
The Rock temple of El Deir at Petra. The Holy Land by David Roberts.
The Nilometer on the Isle of Rhoda, Cairo, rebuilt in 861.
The ancient ruins of the Villa of Maecenas in Tivoli, Italy.
Al-Andalus. Interior of the Mosque at Córdoba, Spain.
The Tomb of St. James in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
Aswan the ancient Syene and the island of Elephantine.
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Alexandria the metropolis of Egypt. The Holy Land, Asia Minor illustrated.
The cemetery of Jaffa, the ancient Joppa, Israel 1836.
Hebron. The Cave of Machpelah. Oriental and Sacred Scences.
The Hypaethral Temple at Philae, called the Bed of Pharaoh.
Front Elevation of the Great Rock Temple of Abu Simbel, Nubia.
Oriental street in the Egyptian capital Cairo with the Al Azhar Mosque.
Yerebatan Serail – The Subterranean Palace. Basilica Cistern, Istanbul.
The Pyramids of Giza. The Great Pyramid of Cheops.
View of the Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis, from the Propyleae.
Sorrento, a coastal town in southwest Italy on the Bay of Naples.
The Approach to the Island of Philae, Egypt, from the North.

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