Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture. Placing Many of Them in a Light Altogether New ... and More Amply Illustrating the Rest Than Has Been Yet Done, by Means of Circumstances Incidentally Mentioned in Books of Voyages and Travels Into the East: In Two Volumes. ...J. Johnson, 1797 |
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Page 55
... Desert ' , tells us they feldom have rain there except at the Equinoxes , that nothing could be more ferene than the sky all the time that they were there , ( which was about a fortnight in March , ) except one afternoon that there was ...
... Desert ' , tells us they feldom have rain there except at the Equinoxes , that nothing could be more ferene than the sky all the time that they were there , ( which was about a fortnight in March , ) except one afternoon that there was ...
Page 57
... desert , it is not certain whence the whirlwind came mentioned under the laft Obfervation but one , fince it only fpeaks of its taking up vast quantities of fand from the Defert . It might do that from whatever quarter it came , fince a ...
... desert , it is not certain whence the whirlwind came mentioned under the laft Obfervation but one , fince it only fpeaks of its taking up vast quantities of fand from the Defert . It might do that from whatever quarter it came , fince a ...
Page 58
... deserts . The " leaft mifchief that it produces is the making dry their leather bottles , or goat - fkins filled with water , which they are obliged " to carry with them in these journies , " and by this means depriving both man " and ...
... deserts . The " leaft mifchief that it produces is the making dry their leather bottles , or goat - fkins filled with water , which they are obliged " to carry with them in these journies , " and by this means depriving both man " and ...
Page 75
... . Cold mornings the latter end of Auguft in the Deserts of Arabia , near the Euphrates , appears ftrange , but is , 3 See alfo Baruch ii . 25 . P. 205 . we 1 } we fee , confirmed by very different authors : in the Holy - Land . 75 $ ...
... . Cold mornings the latter end of Auguft in the Deserts of Arabia , near the Euphrates , appears ftrange , but is , 3 See alfo Baruch ii . 25 . P. 205 . we 1 } we fee , confirmed by very different authors : in the Holy - Land . 75 $ ...
Page 80
... deserts , " where by their extreme frugality , and by " the knowledge they have of places of 66 water , they can fubfift several months " without great difficulty . There is not a " more agreeable fight in the world , than " the ...
... deserts , " where by their extreme frugality , and by " the knowledge they have of places of 66 water , they can fubfift several months " without great difficulty . There is not a " more agreeable fight in the world , than " the ...
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