A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697 / [Henry Maundrell].

  • Henry Maundrell
Date:
1749
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Credit: A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697 / [Henry Maundrell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ <n ] A N ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR’S JOURNEY FROM Aleppo to the River Euphrates, the City Beer, and to Mesopotamia. WE fet out from Aleppo, April 17th 1699. and (leering Eafl North Eaft:, fomewhat lefs, we came in three hours and a half Tuefdaj, April 18, We came in three hours and a half to Bezay, pafiing by Bab, where is a good Aquedud * Djn il Daab, to which you defcend by about thirty Steps ,* and Lediff a pleafant Village. Our Cpurfe thus far was Eaft and by North. In the Afternoon w7e advanced three hours fur¬ ther, Courfe North Eail, to an old ruin'd place, former¬ ly of fome Conftderation, call'd Acamj: It is fituated in the Wildernefs on a Hill encompaifed by a Valley; It was large, and had the footfteps of fome Symmetry, good Walls and Buildings. Wednefdaj, April 19, We went Eaft and by North, and in four hours arriv’d at Bambych. This Place has no remnants of its Ancient * The Diftrid of Danl/> U Greatnefs
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