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Title: Things seen in Palestine
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Goodrich-Freer, A. (Ada), 1865-1931
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Seeley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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essed feet. What itsays to each of us of the great message of 65 Things Seen in Palestine God to man must remain among thoseunwritten records of the soul, with whichno stranger hand may meddle. But thereare other messages for the thinker, of whichwe are reminded at every turn. The roads we walk upon, the bridges wecross, the milestones which direct our steps,the aqueducts we find in many a gorge—these we learn to speak of here as merelyGraeco-Roman. To the north we haveDamascus, the oldest city in history ; tothe south lies Petra, a rose-red city, halfas old as time.11 We may gather a handfulof mosaics from a crusading church, arestoration probably of one built by Con-stantine or Charlemagne. We may watchthe mourning Jews beside the remains ofthe Temple in which they testified to theunity of God, which a muezzin is now pro-claiming from the neighbouring minaret;we may rest under a group of trees descendedfrom the grove which earlier habitantsplanted upon every high hill.11 We may 66
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