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... situation this evening is not unpleasant , being a good deal of verdure about , the water and the shrubs everywhere thicker than ordinary . Near one of the pools is a small hillock upon which I found two groves [ graves ? ] of some ...
... situation this evening is not unpleasant , being a good deal of verdure about , the water and the shrubs everywhere thicker than ordinary . Near one of the pools is a small hillock upon which I found two groves [ graves ? ] of some ...
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... situation of Alcander gave me a desire to view it , but could not prevail on my cameller to go with me for less than a chequin , but my finances not being in the best of order , night approaching , and being fearful of losing the ...
... situation of Alcander gave me a desire to view it , but could not prevail on my cameller to go with me for less than a chequin , but my finances not being in the best of order , night approaching , and being fearful of losing the ...
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... situation of Alexandria , then this account of the longitude of Busserah is perhaps nearer the truth than those draughts , which I pre- sume were formed from journals to India by the Cape of Good Hope . The situation of Scandaroon , as ...
... situation of Alexandria , then this account of the longitude of Busserah is perhaps nearer the truth than those draughts , which I pre- sume were formed from journals to India by the Cape of Good Hope . The situation of Scandaroon , as ...
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A Journey from Aleppo to Basra in 1745 by William | 1 |
A Journey from Basra to Aleppo in 1748 by Gaylard | 41 |
A Similar Journey in 1750 by Bartholomew Plaisted | 129 |
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afternoon Ain el Qom Aleppo Amurath ancient appears Arabia Arabs arrived Asia Bagdad Bagdad caravan barren Bashaw Basra Bassora Battan Beawes Bengal breeze camels carav caravan caravan route Carmichael Course S.E. desert route distance East India encamped Euphrates European expence five four Ganam Gertrude Bell ground Gulf Hakluyt half an hour Haran hills hundred inhabitants journal journey from Busserah July Lakhmid loaded London mamoodies mentioned merchants Mesopotamia miles morning at seven Mount Gilead Mounted this morning Mousul Najaf Niebuhr night noon obliged Oglet Haran Orfa Ormuz overland Palmyra passage passed Persian piasters plain Plaisted plenty probably proceeded Rahba Rennell river road ruins rupees sandy servant seven Sheik shrubs side soil stones stony sunrise Syria Taiyibe Tavernier Teixeira thence three hours town travellers Turks twenty Ukhaidir Urfa valley village Voyage Wadi weather wind