Travels Among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine: Including a Journey from Nazareth to the Mountains Beyond the Dead Sea, and from Thence Through the Plains of the Hauran to Bozra, Damascus, Tripoly, Lebanon, Baalbeck and by the Valley of the Orontes to Seleucia, Antioch and Aleppo |
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