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Title: The desert of the Exodus : journeys on foot in the wilderness of the forty years' wanderings : undertaken in connexion with the ordnance survey of Sinai, and the Palestine exploration fund
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Palmer, Edward Henry, 1840-1882
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel Sinai (Egypt) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Cambridge : Deighton
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. Thewhole thing was a farce, as Sideimdn had, no doubt,himself sent Sehm to prevent us from talkmg to theAzazimeh, and had acted thus merely in order toclear himself now that liLs plot had failed. The blowssounded suspiciously as if given upon a camel saddle,but the moral effect was the same. Since the lament-able Jiasco of Suleimd,ns attempt to frighten us, hehad taken to a fawning, abject demeanour that wasalmost as amusing as it was disgust mg. The next two days we remained at El Aujeh, toexamine the place more thoroughly. We first pro-ceeded to the cave, which we sketched and photo-graphed, and then visited the ruins on the hill,where we took measurements and made plans of thefort and church. The church is in better repair thanthe other buildings ; some of the walls at the south-east corner measure 23 ft. G inches in height, and8 ft. in thickness: the others are about 15 ft. hio-h.Both the church and foii: are built of squared anddressed stones, cemented by a light mortar, almost
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THE CITIES OF THE SOUTH. 3G0 like mud, and by no means so strong as that usedin the construction of the Jiskiyeh and aqueduct inWady Birein. The church is oblong, 122 ft. longby 48ft. wide, and has three apses; that on thenorth side still shows traces of a fresco, though aGreek % and some marks of paint are all that isnow visible of it. On the south side is a smallerchapel, with a chamber behind it, and there are twoothers at the west end. The partition walls are notmore than two or three feet high. Many brokenfragments of columns are lying about, with squarecapitals; these are surrounded with rings, which givethem the appearance of having been tiurned. Therewas no trace of ornamentation, except on two frag-ments of stone, which bore a simple quatrefoil pat-tern ; nor could we discover traces of inscriptions inany of the ruins, either u;)on the hill or in the valleybeneath; but there are some scratches of Greekletters, and in one place a rude drawing of a ship ona stone in the outer w

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