 | Robert Southey - Children's stories - 1847 - 722 pages
...northward of the town, and that it was a rude structure of stone, some four feet in length, two or three in height and as many in breadth, thus resembling the tomb of Noah, which is shewn in the valley of Bekaa, in Syria. Thus widely do these modern travellers, on any one... | |
 | Robert Southey - Children's stories - 1847 - 690 pages
...northward of the town, and that it was a rude structure of stone, some four feet in length, two or three in height and as many in breadth, thus resembling the tomb of Xoah, which is shewn in the valley of Bekaa, in Syria. Thus widely do these modem travellers, on any... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1857 - 484 pages
...who, I need scarcely say, has been carefully copied by our popular authors, was informed that it was a " rude structure of stone, about four feet in length,...resembling the tomb of Noah, seen in the valley of Bakaa in Syria ( ?). Bruce writes : " Two days' journey east from this place (Meccah or Jeddah ?) Eve's... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton, Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1879 - 576 pages
...who, I need scarcely say, bus been carefully copied by our popular authors, was informed that it was a " rude structure of stone, about four feet in length,...resembling the tomb of Noah, seen in the valley of ElBukaa in Syria. Bruce writes : " Two days' journey from this placo (Jleccah or Jeddah?) Eve's grave,... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1906 - 510 pages
...who, I need scarcely say, has been carefully copied by our popular authors, was informed that it was a " rude structure of stone, about four feet in length,...resembling the tomb of Noah, seen in the valley of Al-Buka'a in Syria. Bruce writes: "Two days' journey from this place (? Meccah or Jeddah) Eve's grave,... | |
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Bey, who twice visited Jeddah, makes no allusion to it ; we may therefore conclude that it had been destroyed by the Wahhabis. Burckhardt, who, I need scarcely say, has been carefully copied by our popular authors, was informed that it was a " rude structure... 