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Title: The Jordan valley and Petra
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Libbey, William, 1855- Hoskins, Franklin Evans, joint author
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Publisher: New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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water. In an-other twenty-four hours we had to walk a coupleof hundred yards up the bed of the stream for ourwater supply. The pure water from the sand-stone, which was filtered and aerated by nature,was pleasant to drink, after our experiences withthe hard, limestone water, often badly polluted,which we had been forced to use up to this pointon our trip. VOL. II 8. PETRA It seems no work of mans creative hand, By labor wrought as wavering fancy planned ; But from the rock as if by magic grown, Eternal, silent, beautiful, alone ! Not virgin-white like that old Doric shrine Where erst Athena held her rites divine ; Not saintly-grey, like many a minster fane That crowns the hill and consecrates the plane ; But rosy-red as if the blush of dawn That first beheld them were not yet withdrawn ; The hues of youth upon a brow of woe, Which man deemed old two thousand years ago. Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city half as old as Time. From Burgons Prize Poem, Pet/a. TT4
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CHAPTER V PETRA BEFORE entering upon the detailed examina-tion of the wonders of Petra, it will be ofservice to the reader to have in mind somegeneral observations concerning the three greatfeatures of the ancient city—the site itself, themarvellous coloring of the rocks, and the amountof the excavations. The reader will do well tokeep the excellent plan of Laborde and Linantopen before him. The site is a natural amphi-theatre, fully three miles in circumference, andencompassed on all sides by rugged mountains, ofmost fantastic shape, which rise sheer in manyplaces from two hundred to six hundred feet. Anygeneral view of this is almost impossible, but thetwo on p. i S i and p. 185 taken from a point morethan six hundred feet above our camp (Petra, viewfrom High Place) will well repay examination witha magnifying-glass. This rocky rampart is cut atonly two places, where the brook enters by wayof the Sik, already described, and where the brookescapes, after crossing the site of the ci

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