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

  • Henry Maundrell
Date:
1749
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    £ >«■ ] Of the VALLEY O F S A Which is about ALE I, Hours from P o. THIS Valley is of two or three Hours Extent; we were three quarters of an Hour in crofting one Corner of it. It is of an exadt Level, and appears at a diftance like a Lake of Water. There is a kind of a dry Cruft of Salt all over the top of it; which founds, when the Horfes go upon it, like frozen Snow, when it is walk’d upon. There are three or four fmall Rivulets empty themfelves into this Place, and wafti it all over about Autumn, or when the Rains fall. In the heat of the Summer the Water is dried off, and when the Sun has fcorched the ground, there is found remaining the Cruft of Salt aforeiaid; which they gather and feparate into feveral Heaps, according to the degrees of finenefs; Some being exquifttely White, Others al¬ loy’d with Dirt. It being foft in fome places, our Horfes hoofs ftruck in deep : And there I found in one part a foft brown Clay, in another a very black one, which to the Tafte was very Salt, thoJ deep in the Earth. Along on one Side of the Valley, viz. that towards Gibul, there is a fmall Precipice about two Men’s lengths, occaiion’d by the continual taking away the Salt; and in this you may fee X how
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