Palestine: the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land / By John Kitto. Illustrated with one hundred and seventy-one woodcuts, by the most eminent artists.

John Kitto

Date:: 1841

Credit: Palestine: the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land / By John Kitto. Illustrated with one hundred and seventy-one woodcuts, by the most eminent artists. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$a, Cuttle-fish, eceexviii Cyclamen hederefolium, cexlii —— ivy-leaved, cexlii* —— spring flowering, ccxxxi Cynara cardunculus, cclxx* scolymus, ccxxxix* Cynoglossum creticum, c¢xli* hispidum, cclxx* Cypress, cexxiii — summer, cel xix Cyprinus carpio, ecccxviii* — nasus, 7d. Niloticus, id. DaFFODIL, cexli Dagan, sometimes translated corn, sometimes wheat, its mean- ing, cccxxiv* Daisy, ccxix Date palm, cexxiv, ccxxv Daman Israel, ecelxxvii Dame’s violet, ccxxxi Dandelion, cclxxxi Dandini, ‘Missione Apostolica, &c., del Monte Libano,’ xi Dapper, Olfert, ‘ Naukerige Beschryving,’ &c., xiv Date, ccelxxiii, cclxxxvi Dead Sea, its various ancient names, clxxv its measurement according to Josephus, id. —— description of, by Robinson and Smith, cx, cxi situation, extent, and description of, clxxy, clxxxix ————— southern termination of, explored by Irby and Mangles, clxxxvii, clxxxviii partial survey of, by Moore and Beek, clxxx vi tour of the, described, id. view of, described by Elliot and by Paxton, clxxxiii —clxxxv volcanic appearance at the, Ixxviii, lxxix whether its bed be the crater of a volcano consi- dered, xevi—xceviii* analysation of its water, clxxxi buoyancy of the water of the, clxxxi, clxxxiv, cciv* Death, vale of, or Waad-el-Ajal, ciii December, history of the month of, cecxlvi—cccxlix —— weather in the month of, cecxlvi Defle tree, ccxxxv, cc] xxxii Delisle, ‘ Description de 1’ Egypte’ (plants), xxi ———-_‘ Flore Aigyptiace Illustratio,’ id. Deloul or riding dromedary, ccclxxxvii Delphinium, cexli arvense, ccxli* incanum, ccxcii* —————- segetum, ccxli* Denon, his description of the simoom, cxlix,* cl* * Descriptio Terre Sancte’ by Brocard, viii ‘ Description of the East’ by Pococke, xvii ‘ Description de l’ Egypte’ (invertebrate animals) by Savigny and Audouin, xxi, xxii (mammalia) by St. Hilaire, xxii (mineralogy) by de Rosiére, xxi (ornithology) by Savigny, xxii (plants) by Delisle, xxi ——— (reptiles) by St. Hilaire, xxii ‘ Descriptiones Animalium,’ by Peter Forskal, xxi Desert tupinambis, cccxii ene —_——. a ee ———— extent. and description of, exl—cxlvii Devil’s candle, the, cclxvi meat, the, eclxv Dew, fall of, in August, ccci Diadelphia, cexl Dianthus monadelphus, ccxcii — Nazareus, id. Dibs, sometimes translated by the word honey, eccxxxiv* * Dictionnaire Historique, Chronologique, &c., de la Bible,’ by Calmet, account of, xxv* Dill, sometimes used by translators for anise, cexxxiii Dioscorides’s moly., eexxxii* Ms Diospolis, city of, or Lod, its situation, cxcill Dittander, ccxli ‘ mee ‘ Divotissimo Viaggo di Gerusalemme,’ by Giovanni Zuallardo, xi Dochan, whether it be millet or dourra, cccxvi Dog, ccclv fox, ceclix shepherd’s, ecclxiii street or bazaar, ceclvi watch, ecelxiii Dogs, number of in Constantinople, ceclvii* value of, as guardians of property, eccl vit charitable donations among, id. —— their value as scavengers, td. — of ancient Egypt, ccclix a —— the dicta of Mahomet concerning, ccelviii —— unclean animals, ccelvi —— mummies of, ceclix ; river, or Nahar el Kelb or Lycus, ci Doom tree, ccliii ; CCCCXXVIL Doom, or theder tree, eclxxxvii Dorade, ceccxvi Dormouse, ccclxxi Dothan, plain of, situation, extent, history, &c., of, cxv Doubdan, ‘ Voyage de la Terre Sainte,’ &c., by, xii Doum palm tree, cexxvi Dourra, Syrian or Indian corn, or millet, cecxiii, eecxiv Dove, common, ceccix cropper, id. jacobine, id. ——— ring, id. turbit, id. turtle, id. Dove’s dung, eccxlv D’Oyley, Rev. S., and Rev. J. Colson, their translation of Calmet’s ‘Dictionnaire Historique, &c., de la Bible,’ account of, xxv* Draba verna, ccxli* Dracocephalum Moldaviea, cexli* Drag, threshing by, cclviii Dragon-wort, ccxli Dromedary and came], distinction between, ccc]xxxvii —— Nubian, cece] xxxviii Druses, the, in Syria, cccli Dubbah or hyena, ccelxvi Duck, common, cccciv Dudaim or mandrake, celxiv Dung, dried for fuel, eccex\viii cakes, making, for fuel, ccexlix various sorts of, used by the Israelites, cccxlv hills, zd. gate of Jerusalem, id. Durham mustard, ecliii Dyeing, plants cultivated for, eeexxi—ccexxii ——— tails of horses and asses, custom of, ccelxx xiii — the hands and feet, id. Dzuba or hyena, ccclxvii EAGLE, IMPERIAL, ecccii sea,-or osprey, 7d. Earthquake, Ixxxvi—xcviili —_———— voleanic indications and, Ixxvii—xeviii of 31 B.c., Ixxxvii ——_—— of July 21, 365, felt in Palestine, id. ———— of 447 at Constantinople, Antioch, and. Alex- andria, id. ——_—— —— in the reign of Justinian, probably felt in Pales- tine, id. of 748, in the reign of the Emperor Copronymus, Ixxxvili —-—-— of 242 a.n., 552 avn. (aD. 1157), and a.p. 1034, noticed, id. ——+-——— of 1170, id. of May 20, 1202, in Syria and Fgypt, described, id., \Xxxix ——_—— of 1759 described, id., xe ————- of 1822 at Aleppo, xci —_————— of 1837 in Palestine, id., xcii of 1837, list of towns, houses, and persons of Syria destroyed by, xciii ; villages in district of Shara, ditto, xciv eee Earth-pea, cexv worm, cccexvili Earwig, eccexix *‘ East, Description of the,’ by Pococke, xvii Ebal, Mount, situation of, xxxvili Echinops grandiflora, ccxcii* Echium violaceum, ccxl* ——-———- vulgare, id. Ecklin, Daniel, ‘ Reise zum Heilige Grab,’ xiv ‘ Economical Calendar of Palestine’ of Buhl, translated by Taylor, cevi Edar, tower of, or of Jacob, cxxiv Eel, eceexviii —— Aleppo, ececxvii, ceccxvili Egg-plant, cclxxxi Egmont, Van, and Heyman, ‘ Travels through part of Europe, Asia Minor, &c.,’ xvii ‘Egypt, Travels in,’ by Irby and Mangles, xviii Eleagnus augustifolia, ccxxxiv ———— orientalis, id. . Elah, valley of, or Terebinth Vale, cxx El Ahsa, valley of the, hot spring at, Ixxviii El Bekaah, or the valley (the great valley of Lebanon), evi, evii El Bekka, xxxii : ‘ El Devoto Peregrino,’ by Ant. Castillo, x El Erbayn, or the Forty (Martyrs), Convent of, 1 Eleutheropolis, its situation, exciv : Eleutherus, river, the Kasmia sometimes mistaken for, exci El Foura, plain of, wells in, cxxx El Ghoeyr, valley of, situation and description of, xlv El Ghor, or valley of the Jordan, cix El Hamam, or Emmaus, lxxvi El Hosn, valley near, described, cxxxv : Elliot, Rev. C. B., ‘ Travels in the Three Great Empires,’ xix$