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420 NOTICES OT BO0KS.
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slope : above this there was about fifty feet of naked rock wall to be got up ; whilst somehow Abou —once Dahouk there was scrambled but a ledge of some three inches wide to stand on ,
higher , and then , leaning over , pulled up the ; us up smooth by main face force seven ! one of ei false gHt ' step .. _¦& _$ *"' ' and we should have gone to the bottom of the chasm !"
We find so many passages marked for extract in this' charming within book of the Eastern limits travel of our , that short the difficult space . y ¦ " is to Druse decide Wedding what to g ive nd
Ent Funeral rance " to , A Jerusalem Visit to , " ¦ " a Clim Druse ate of Settlement Jerusalem , " , " " ' " A Easter View Eve of , , " ai & i e d
& c , invite our special attention ; but we must pass them over , and present our readers with the following" very graphic account of-:
—A . Dip in the DeadSea and the Jordan . 'Sea " Deceive appeared d b so y the near clearness to us that of the we expected atmosphere to and reach the it level in half plain an , the hour Dead : it
shaped was shore , however , passing peaks , and over a ride much low of undulations two sand hours mud , and : covered the a hal shadeless with _£ before sharp lain we cones - was had , a little rrived hot queerl at under the y- _,
the mid-day sun , , and the horses y occasionally sank so p much in very the mud that the our headland progress , was of'Ain slow Jidi ; but and the the view well was -known interesting cliff of : we Sebbeh soon with recognised Jebel
, , mountain wreath Usdourn of b range ehind warm , it which vapor , apparentl appeared showed y forming the to be ravine hi the gher of end than Calirrhoe of the the rest , Sea and , — we one on chose point the to left of fancy , the the must be
grand little Pisgah tent . with While driftwood we .. looked and shawls at the , under view which our dragoman we spread built our us car a - pet as cool , and and made refreshing our" toilets as its preparatory clearness to had bathing looked in inviting the . Lake and : the water leasant was
it was to float upon the strangely buoyant water : the taste , is very quite p indecent whereas scribable , in the there —the water is first four of sensation the per Dead cent is , Sea of of salt the the in saltness next the is ocean of of a brine , sickening there , very is twenty naturall -six bitter y , per for , -
which _inmost disgusting : of the many ; descriptions of it , M . , de greasy _Saiilcy's is , much the best—' a mixture of salt , eolocinth , and oil . ' The strangest part
instantl is the sensation y dry all over on the —literall skin aft y erwards ' dry as a : bon without e '—rdrier any than touch anything of towel one one could was think of , and yet greasy withal- —not exactly sticky , but oily—the most
disand agreeable clothes feeling visibly inside , just as one it ' s lies clothes on all and the g driftwood loves . The on salt the dried shore on but one a ' touch s hair brushed it away ; We p icked up a small fish quite dead , and a , number of
with very indubitabl tiny black y shells living , similar fish in them to some ; I we have had it found noted in in the my j Lake ournal of th Galilee at they , were still alive thirty hours after : but the _JBedoueens said these had been
the only Dead lately Sea washed water in . from _Chateaubri the Jordan and relates , and that that they he . hear could d a not murmur live long in the in ; the water lak which e—I conclude his guides he told mean him s th arose at they from were millions singing of their little little fish death rushing into :
songs onl _certainly y dead all fish the : probabl shells that y some we p current icked up washing on the round shore from at 'Ain the Jidi mouth contained of the Jordan along the curves of the northern" endenables the fish to live in that
, About particular twenty spot feet : those from we the picked shore up there were is an stationary islet of mud , stickino which * to is the said stones to be _. covered with ruins of great antiquity—but we saw none from , where we stood
. very We gathered dry and very also great pretty bunches ; they made of tiny the pink shore flowers quite — gay _something , and we like put heath bowers _-r- >
of them on our horses' heads in the hot ride of two _hoiirs more to the bank .
420 Notices Ot Bo0ks.
420 _NOTICES _OT BO _0 KS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/60/
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