Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig; Murray, John

Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig: Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

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Autor*in:: Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig

Titel:: Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

Erscheinungsort:: London

Verlag:: Murray

Drucker:: Murray, John

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1822

Umfang:: XXIII, 668 S

Sprache:: Englisch

Signatur:: Rara B948t

Standort (Original):: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte / Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Autor*in:: Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig

Titel:: Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

Erscheinungsort:: London

Verlag:: Murray

Drucker:: Murray, John

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1822

Umfang:: XXIII, 668 S

Sprache:: Englisch

Signatur:: Rara B948t

Standort (Original):: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte / Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

535 WADY KYD. have seen them in Syria, and the eagle Rakham. The Bedouins also mentioned an eagle whose outspread wings measure six feet across, and which carries off lambs. After four hours and a half we reached Wady Kyd (5), and rested at its entrance under two immense blocks of granite, which had fallen down from the mountain ; they form two spacious caverns, ¬ and serve as a place of shelter for the shepherdesses; we saw in them several articles of tent furniture and some cooking utensils. On the sides figures of goats are drawn with charcoal; but I saw no inscriptions cut in the rock. The blocks are split in several places as if by lightning. We followed the Wady Kyd, continuing on a gentle ascent from the time of our setting out in the morning. The windings of the valley led us, at the end of five hours and a half, to a small rivulet, two feet across, and six inches in depth, which is lost immediately below, in the sands of the Wady. It drips down a granite - rock, which blocks up the valley, there only twenty paces in breadth, and forms at the foot of the rock a small pond, overshadowed by trees, with fine verdure on its banks. The rocks which overhang it on both sides almost meet, and give to the whole the appear ance of a grotto, most delighful to the traveller after passing through these dreary valleys. It is in fact the most romantic spot I have seen in these mountains, and worthy of being frequented by other people than Arabs, upon whom the beauties of nature make a very faint impression. The camels passed over the rocks with great difficulty ; beyond it we continued in the same narrow valley, along the rivulet, amidst groves of date, Nebek, and some tama risk trees, until, at six hours, we reached the source of the rivulet, ¬ where we rested a little. This is one of the most noted date valleys of the Sinai Arabs; the contrast of its deep verdure with the glaring rocks by which it is closely hemmed in, is very striking, and shews that wherever water passes in these districts, however

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