Travels in Syria and the Holy Land – John Lewis Burckhardt, 1822
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Quote: The principal geographical discoveries of our traveller, are the nature of the country between the Dead Sea and the gulf of Aelana, now Akaba;-- the extent, conformation, and detailed topography of the Haouran;--the site of Apameia on the Orontes, one of the most important cities of Syria under the Macedonian Greeks; Quote: When the Macedonian Greeks first became acquainted with this ...
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