 | Charles Leonard Irby, James Mangles, John Barker - Egypt - 1823 - 626 pages
...numerous ravines and valleys like those we had passed, branch out in all directions; the sides of the mountains, covered with an endless variety of excavated tombs and private dwellings (7Z), presented altogether, the most singular scene we ever beheld; and we must despair to give the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1824 - 608 pages
...there is no getting out of them, except, in one instance, by climbing the precipice. ' The sides of the mountains, covered with an endless variety of excavated...dwellings, presented altogether, the most singular scene we had ever beheld : and we must despair to give the reader an idea of the singular effect of rocks tinted... | |
 | 1824 - 600 pages
...altogether, the most singular scene we had ever beheld : and we must despair to give the reader au idea of the singular effect of rocks tinted with the most extraordinary hues, whose summits- present us with nature in her most savage and romantic form, while their bases are worked out in all the symmetry... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 552 pages
...Indian Antiq. vol. iii, p. 97u " The sides of the mountains," near Petra, the capital of the Nabatra, " covered with an endless variety of excavated tombs...dwellings, presented altogether the most singular scene we had ever beheld : and we must despair to give the reader an idea of the singular effect of rocks tinted... | |
 | Science - 1828 - 406 pages
...numerous ravines and valleys, like those we had passed, branch out in all directions. The sides of the mountains, covered with an endless variety of excavated...dwellings, presented altogether the most singular scene we ever beheld ; and we must despair to give the reader an idea of the singular effect of rocks, tinted... | |
 | Science - 1828 - 420 pages
...numerous ravines and valleys, like those we had passed, branch out in all directions. The sides of the mountains, covered with an endless variety of excavated...dwellings, presented altogether the most singular scene we ever beheld ; and we must despair to give the reader an idea of the singular effect of rocks, tinted... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Africa - 1831 - 362 pages
...there is no getting out of them, except, in one instance, by climbing the precipice. ' The sides of the mountains, covered with an endless variety of excavated...savage and romantic form, while their bases are worked out in all the symmetry and regularity of art, with colonnades, and pediments, and ranges of corridors... | |
 | Religion - 1833 - 804 pages
...vicinity of the ruins, is of very different periods. * "The sides of the mountains, covered with nn endless variety of excavated tombs and private dwellings,...despair of giving the reader an idea of the singular eflect of rorks tinted with the most extraordinary hues, whose summits present to us nature in her... | |
 | 1833 - 468 pages
...thousand spectators, ALL cut out of the roc1r." Captains Irby and Mangles refer to " the sides of the mountains covered with an endless variety of excavated tombs and private dwellings;" and to prove that THE ROCK applies to Petra, Dr. Vincent observes, " the name of this capital, in all... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - Arabian Peninsula - 1834 - 432 pages
...perhaps is analogous in any other part of the world. " It is impossible," says Mr. Banks, " to give the reader an idea of the singular effect of rocks...the most extraordinary hues, whose summits present nature in her most savage and romantic form ; while their bases are worked out in all the symmetry... | |
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The sides of the mountains, covered with an endless variety of excavated tombs and private dwellings, presented altogether the most singular scene we ever beheld... 
