The convent of St. Catherine. “The front of Mount Horeb rose like a wall before us, and one can approach quite to the foot, and touch the Mount.”
Convent of St. Catherine with Mount Horeb, Egypt.
Category: 19th Century
The convent of St. Catherine Mount Sinai looking towards
The Artist has taken the Sketch about due South of the Convent, looking upon the track which he pursued from the presumed Plain of the Israelite Encampment.
Ascent to the summit of Mount Sinai.
Journey to Mount Sinai. The path to the summit of Mount Sinai leads through a gorge in the southwest. One of the Monks of the Convent stationed himself there in prayer.
Tank near Colombo with Indian lotus flowers. Sri Lanka 19th c..
Nothing can surpass the graceful groups of palms, reflected on the mirror-like surface of the water.
Ascent of the lower range of Mount Sinai, 1839.
This Sketch gives a portion of the Israelite march to Sinai. The foot of the Pass before us, called by the Arabs Nukb Hâwy (Windy Pass).
The Christian and Mohammedan Chapels on Mount Sinai, 1839.
Those Chapels are placed on what is traditionally regarded as the summit of Sinai.
Egypt. The river Nile, with the Pyramids of Ghizeh in the distance.
The Nile is the only river of Egypt, and is called by way of pre-eminence the River.
Kittim, Cyprus, View of Larnaca, 1836.
The island of Cyprus was known to the Hebrews under the name of Chetim (or Kittim), from Kittim the son of Javan, the son of Japhet, the son of Noah.
At the Cascade in the rainforest near Lemastota. Sri Lanka 19th century.
One cascade of many others in the rainforest near Lemastota, located at an altitude of about 3000 feet above sea level.
Chapel of the convent of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.
The interior of the Chapel of St. Catherine is probably the oldest and the richest of all the Eastern churches