On the opposite side of the grotto there is an altar (seen on the right hand in the drawing), where it is said the magi of the East.
Bethlehem. The Grotto of the Nativity. The Chapel of the Innocents.
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Historical travel literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. The discovery of the world
Bethlehem. Historical views and description of its sites.
The town of Bethlehem and its surroundings depicted and described in the travelogues of David Roberts and Luigi Mayer in the 19th century.
The Approach to the Island of Philae, Egypt, from the North.
The Approach to Philae is one of the few views which a photograph can render without, perhaps, greatly detracting from its artistic fame.
Distant view of Damascus, from the village of Salihiye. Syria.
The elevation, shortly after the traveler leaves the village of Salihiyeh being sufficient to give him a splendid range of vision.
Convent of Mar Saba. The Holy Laura of Saint Sabbas. Palestine.
Mar Saba, the Sabas Monastery, Saint Laura of Saint Sabbas, is a Greek Orthodox monastery in the Kidron Valley in the Judah Desert, 12 km east of Bethlehem.
The largest of the cedars of Lebanon. Mount Lebanon.
View of the entire grove of “The Cedars.” The tree now represented is, upon the whole, the noblest of the ten or twelve “venerables” now standing.
The Hudson River Palisades. Dramatic geological formations.
The Palisades are among the most dramatic geological formations in the New York City area.
Pera. A quarter of the great suburb of Constantinople.
Pera was the name of a district of Constantinople, or more properly a quarter of the great suburb of Galata located north of the Golden Horn.
Mount Ararat. From the hills above Erevan, Armenia. 1834.
Our view is taken, looking towards the south. This celebrated mountain, on one of the ridges of which Noah’s “ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month,” …
The Colossi of Memnon. Colossal Statues in The Plain of Thebes.
Colossal Statues in The Plain of Thebes, during the Inundation of the Nile. Two ancient Egyptian colossal statues standing side by side from the 14th century BC.