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" There is nothing in the Holy Land finer than the view of Napolose, from the heights around it. As the traveller descends towards it from the hills, it appears luxuriantly embosomed in the most delightful and fragrant bowers ; half concealed by rich gardens,... "
The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature ... - Page 574
by Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 660 pages
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The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volume 4

English literature - 1812 - 540 pages
...contrast to that which groaned under the tyranny of Djezzar. " As the traveller descends towards Napolose, it appears luxuriantly embosomed in the most delightful...the bold and beautiful valley in which it stands. Trade seems to flourish among its inhabitants:" and in the neighbouring country the cultivation was...
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Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Greece, Egypt, and ...

Edward Daniel Clarke - Europe - 1814 - 428 pages
...Land finer llian the view of Napolose, from the heights around it. As the traveller descends toward it from the hills, it appears luxuriantly embosomed...the bold and beautiful valley in which it stands. Trade seems to flourish among its inhabitants. Their principal employment is in making soap; but the...
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Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Scripture illustrated, by means ...

Augustin Calmet - Bible - 1814 - 636 pages
...Holy Land finer than the view of Napolose from the heights around it. As the traveller descends toward it from the hills, it appears luxuriantly embosomed...the bold and beautiful valley in which it stands. Trade seems to flourish among its inhabitants. Their principal employment is in making soap ; but the...
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Lord Byron's Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: A Poem ... to which is Added the ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, John Agg - 1817 - 114 pages
...Acre. There iť nothing in the Holy Land finer than the view of Napolose, from the heights around it.. As the traveller descends towards it from the hills, it appears luxuriantly embosomed in the mnst delightful and fragrant bowers; half concealed by rich gardens, and by stately trees collected...
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The Edinburgh Gazetteer, Or Geographical Dictionary ..., Volume 4

Edinburgh gazetteer - Atlases - 1822 - 802 pages
...there is nothing in the Holy Land finer than the view of Naplous, from the heights around it. As tile traveller descends towards it from the hills, it appears...into groves, all around the bold and beautiful valley on which it stands. Trade seems to flourish among its inhabitants. Their principal employment is in...
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Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Greece, Egypt, and ...

Edward Daniel Clarke - Africa - 1823 - 490 pages
...heights around suterf-the it. As the traveller descends towards it from Country. ^ ^-jj^ -fc appear3 luxuriantly, embosomed in the most delightful and...the bold and beautiful valley in which it stands. Trade seems to flourish among its inhabitants. Their principal employment is in making soap ; but the...
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Sketches of the Earth and Its Inhabitants: With One Hundred Engravings, Volume 2

Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 512 pages
...and Mount Gerizim. When viewed from the heights, it makes a very picturesque appearance, and seems luxuriantly embosomed in the most delightful and fragrant bowers, half concealed by rich gardens and stately trees. It was anciently called Sichem, Schechem, Sychar, and afterwards Neapolis, and is frequently...
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Palestine: Or, The Holy Land

Josiah Conder - Palestine - 1824 - 398 pages
...nothing in the Holy Land finer," he affirms, " than the view of Napolose from the heights around it. As the traveller descends towards it from the hills,...trees collected into groves all around the bold and • Dent. xi. 29; xxvii. 12, 13. Jofh. viii. 33. beautiful valley in which it stands." " Within the...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 16

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...wet with the dews of Thabor and of Hermon.' (p. 4'J6.) 'As the traveller descends towards Xapolose, it appears luxuriantly embosomed in the most delightful...rich gardens, and by stately trees collected into gro\es, all around the bold and beautiful valley in which it stands. Trade seems to nourish among its...
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The Evidence of Prophecy

Alexander Keith - Apologetics - 1830 - 176 pages
...Geddin, abounding with olives, almonds, peaches, apricots, and figs; Napolose,the ancient Sychem, ' luxuriantly embosomed in the most delightful and fragrant...half concealed by rich gardens and by stately trees ;' the vale of Zabulon ; rich forests on the mountains of Gilead, though the plains beneath be covered...
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