 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 810
...construction of one ; and as the land is capable of rich cultivation there can be no doubt that the country, now so deserted, once presented a continued picture of plenty and fertility. The form of fields is still visible, and there are remains of Roman highways, which are in some places... | |
 | Charles Leonard Irby, James Mangles, John Barker - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...them on slight eminences ; Imriega, E. by N., Hadad, Shirsee, Behlanah, Suhl, and Nehkill ; in short, the whole of the fine plains in this quarter, are...presented a continued picture of plenty and fertility; hereabouts, I think, must be the quarter alluded to by the Arabs, when they made the report to Volney,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...construction of one. And as the land is capable of rich cultivation, there can be no doubt that the country, now so deserted, once presented a continued picture of plenty and fertility."p The form of fields is still visible ; and there are the remains of Roman highways, which... | |
 | Léon marquis de Laborde - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...are covered with sites of towns, on every eminence or spot convenient for the construction of one. As all the land is capable of rich cultivation, there...presented a continued picture of plenty and fertility."* This, probably, is the region alluded to by the Arabs who reported to Volney, " that there are, to... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...construction of one. And as the land is capable of rich cultivation, there can be no doubt that the country now so deserted once presented a continued picture of plenty and fertility."! The form of fields is still visible ; and there are the remains of Roman highways, which in some places... | |
 | Charles Leonard Irby, James Mangles - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...Hadad, Shirsee, Behlanah, Suhl, and Nehkill ; in short, the whole of the fine plains in this ((uarter are covered with sites of towns, on every eminence...presented a continued picture of plenty and fertility. Having finished our survey of the neighbouring ruins, we returned to Ismayel's camp, where we slept.... | |
 | Charles Leonard Irby, James Mangles - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...with sites of towns, on every eminence or spot convenient for the construction of one ; and, as nil the land is capable of rich cultivation, there can...presented a continued picture of plenty and fertility. Having finished our survey of the neighbouring ruins, we returned to Ismayel's camp, where we slept.... | |
 | John Kitto - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 1024
...construction of one ; and as the land is capable of rich cultivation, there can be no doubt that the country, now so deserted, once presented a continued picture of plenty and fertility' (Irby and Mangles, p. 378). The form of fields is still visible, and there are remains of Roman highways... | |
 | John Kitto - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 1022
...construction of one : and as the land is capable of rich cultivation, there can be no doubt that the country, now so deserted, once presented a continued picture of plenty and fertility' (Irby and Mangles, p. 378). The form of fields is still visible, and there are remains of Roman highways... | |
 | Christopher Cushing - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...construction of one ; and as the land is capable of rich cultivation, there can be no doubt that the country, now so deserted, once presented a continued picture of plenty and fertility." * Its ruins, which remain from generation to generation, are to us an abiding proof of the inspiration... | |
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The whole of the plains are covered with the sites of towns on every eminence or spot convenient for the construction of one : and as the land is capable of rich cultivation, there can be no doubt that the country, now so deserted, once presented a continued... 
