 | 1747 - 530 pagina’s
...The hillocks, with which the plain, about an hour's diftance from the D.cad Sea, is here-and-there covered, not unlike thofe "places in England where...kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown by the fpur kings'. 3. The celebrated fruit called, by the Arabs, zach/we(R), 7&rzain the plain of Jericho,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1786 - 738 pagina’s
...England where there have been anciently limekilns. kilns. Whether thefc might be the pits at which the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown by the four kings, Gen. xiv. 10, I will not determine. Coming near the fea we pafled through a kind of coppice, of bufhes... | |
 | Universal history - 1779 - 520 pagina’s
...2. The hillocks, with which the plain, about an hour's diftance from the Dead Sea, is here and there covered, not unlike thofe places in England where...pretended to be the pits where the kings of Sodom and Gomorah were overthrown by the four kings. 3. The celebrated fruit called, by the Arabs, zachone (H),... | |
 | Edward Wells - 1809 - 432 pagina’s
...England, where there have been anciently lime-kilns. Whether thefe might be the pits, atdreil. which the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown by the four kings, I will not, fays he, determine. Then he takes notice of the fountain of frefh water, as the Arab called... | |
 | Elijah Parish - 1813 - 558 pagina’s
...places in England where there have been anciently limekilns. Whether these might be the pits, at which the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown by the four kings, I will not (says he) determine. SIDE, a city of Pamphylia. The senate of Rome wrote to the inhabitants... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1824 - 398 pagina’s
...the higher or outer bank of the river, from which there is a descent these might be the pits at which the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown by the four kings, Gen. xiv. 10, 1 will not determine." in many places to a lower ground, only four or five feet above... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pagina’s
...hillocks, which Mr. Maundrell compares to ruinous lime-kilns ; but whether these might be the pits at which the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown by the four kings who invaded their country, he could not determine. The water of the lake is intensely salt, extremely... | |
 | Henry Maundrell - 1836 - 294 pagina’s
...places in England where there have been anciently lime-kilns. Whether these might be the pits at which the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown by the four kings, Gen. xiv. 10, I will not determine. Coming near the sea we passed through a kind of coppice of bushes... | |
 | George Bush - 1839 - 738 pagina’s
...hillocks, which Mr. Maundrell compares to ruinous lime-Wins ; but whether these might be the piis at which al to receive his pardon." — BORDER. CHAPTER XXXVI. Ver. 8. And who invaded their country, he could not determine. — PAXTON. As it has no outlet. Reland, Pococke,... | |
 | George Paxton - 1842 - 586 pagina’s
...hillocks, which Mr Maundrell compares to ruinous lime-kilns ; but whether these might be the pits at which the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown by the four kings who invaded their country, he could not determine. The water of the lake is intensely salt, extremely... | |
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Coming within about half an hour of the sea, we found the ground uneven, and varied into hillocks, much resembling those places in England where there have been anciently lime-kilns. Whether... 
