Extracts from the Works of Travellers, Illustrative of Various Passages in Holy Scripture [Compiled by M.F. Maude]. download torrent

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Extracts from the Works of Travellers, Illustrative of Various Passages in Holy Scripture [Compiled by M.F. Maude]..cMary Fawler Maude

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Author: Mary Fawler Maude
Page Count: 80 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235866425
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ...not moved upon wheels; the share, which is small, scarcely grazes the earth; and it has only one handle or shaft, with a small piece of wood across the top, for the husbandman to guide it, resembling the head of a staff, or the handle of a spade. The man holds this in his right hand, and carries a long stick in his left, with which he goads the oxen. The whole machine is made so extremely light, that a person might with facility carry it in his arms. The share is covered with a piece of broad iron, pointed at the end, so as it might be converted into a weapon of warfare. In all probability, it is to this peculiarity that one of the prophets refers, where he calls on the nations to relinquish rural occupations, and convert their ploughs into instruments of battle."--Rae Wilson's Travels in the Holy Land, vol. i.r p. 401. DOVE-HOUSES. Isaiah Lx. 8. "Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?" 2 Kings vi. 25. "The fourth part of a cab of dove's dung (was sold) for five pieces of silver." In the environs of the city of Ispahan, in Persia, are many pigeon-houses, erected at a distance from habitations, for the sole purpose of collecting pigeon's dung for manure. They are large round towers, rather broader at the bottom than the top, and crowned by conical spiracles, through which the pigeons descend. Their interior resembles a honey-comb, pierced with a thousand holes, each of which forms a snug retreat for a nest. More care appears to have been bestowed upon their outside, than upon that of the generality of the dwellinghouses, (the exteriors of which are little studied, ) for they are painted and ornamented. The extraordinary flights of pigeons which I have seen alight upon one of these buildings, afford, perh...

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