Journal of a Tour in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Greece
Subtitle: With notes, and an appendix on ecclesiastical subjects
Publisher: C. Dolman
Published: 1852
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: Germany, Trieste, and the Adriatic.; title: Cologne, 2 ; Dresden, its Churches and Gallery, 3 ; The Church in Austria, 5 ; Neisse, 8 ; Pius Verein , or Church Union, 9 ; Reverential Demeanour at home and abroad, 16; Austrian Silesia — Vienna, 21; Trieste, 22; The Adriatic, Coasting Vessels in distress, 23; Pola, 24; Roman Amphitheatre and Temples, 24 ; Corsola and Melida, 25 ; Conversation on the state of the Greek Church, 27 ; Corfu, 28 ; Church of S. Spiridion, 29 ; Ithaca, 30 ; Candia, 30.; title: CHAPTER II.; title: Arrival in Egypt.; title: Alexandria, 31 ; Eastern Sights and Sounds, 31 ; Turkish Bath, 32 ; "Pompey's Pillar", 33 ; Mohammedanism, 34 ; Franciscan Convent, 36 ; Political Parties in Egypt, 37 ; Catacombs in the Desert, 38 ; Roman Pottery, 39 ; Egyptian Music, 40 ; Mahmudie Canal, 41 ; The Nile, 42 ; Grand Cairo, 43 ; Nile Boat, 44; Streets of Cairo, 44; Mosque, 45; Joseph's House, 49; Mehemet Ali's Palace, 50; Old Cairo, 51; The Pyramids, 54 ; Tombs of the Caliphs, 60 ; Ibrahim Pacha's Tomb, 62 ; The Petrified Wood, 63.; title: CHAPTER III.; title: The Nile.; title: The Dahabiehy or Nile Boat, 66 ; Young Hippotamus, 66 ; Marriage Procession, 67 ; Navigation of the Nile, 68 ; Accuracy of Herodotus, 70 ; Hill of the Birds, 70 ; Convent of Sitti Miriam el Adra, 71 ; Brick Wall of Sesostris, 71 ; Thoughts on the Greek Schism, 72; Egyptian Bread, 78; Crocodiles, 79 ; Siout, 80 ; Excavated Tombs, 80 ; Temple of Anybis, 81 ; Coptic Bishop, Clergy, and Convent, 82 ; Anecdote of Circassian Slaves, 84 ; Achmim, 84 ; Girgeh, 84 ; Kasr-e-Syad, 84 ; Local Superstitions, 85 ; Thebes," 86 ; Temples of Goomeh, 86 ; Remeseum, 88 ; Ahmed Pasha, 88 ; Karnak and Luxor, 95 ; Ptolemaic Temple at Esneh, 96 ; Modes of Irrigation in Upper and Lower Egypt, 98 ; Island of Elephantine, 99 ; First Cataract, 100 ; Philoc, 101 ; Nubia, 104; Zodiacal Light, 104; The Idolatry of the Israelites, and the Religion of Ancient Egypt, 106; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: Voyage down the Nile.; title: A Storm on the Nile, 109; Temples of Abou-Simbel, 110; Ptolemaic Temple at Hierosycaminon, 110; Kalabsche, 111 ; Descent of the First • Cataract, 114; Second Visit to Philce, 115; The People of Nubia, 116; Quarries of Syene, 116; Thebes, 117; Temple - Palace at Medinet Habou, 117; The Remeseum, 118; Paintings and Sculptures in the Tombs of the Asaseef, 121; Negadeh, 129; Dendera, 132; A "Tractarian" Dilemma, 137; The White Monastery, 139; Antinoe, 144 ; Grottoes of Dayr-e-Nachl, and of Beni Hassan, 145; Memphis, 154; Pyramid of Mycerinus, 156.; title: CHAPTER V.; title: Journey across the Desert.; title: Return to Cairo, 162; News from Home, 162; Mohammedan Tomb, 167; Dr. Abbott's Museum, 168; Early Pointed Architecture, 169; Matarieh and Heliopolis, 171; Camel Riding, 174; The Desert, 175; El Arish, 180; Ruins of Raphia, 184; Gaza, 184; Valley and Church of Abou Gosh, 187; Arrival at Jerusalem, 189.; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: Jerusalem.; title: Entrance into the Holy City, 191; Franciscan Convent, 192; Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 192 ; The Stone of Unction, 193; The Sepulchre, 194; Column of Flagellation, 194; Calvary, 196; Traditions concerning the Holy Places, 198; Via Dolorosa, 199 ; Getbsemane, 201 ; Tomb of Our Lady, 202 ; The Writer is received into the Church, 208 ; Easter at Jerusalem, 210; Bethlehem, 215; Cave of S. Jerome, 216; Valley of Ben-Hinnom, 217 ; Jericho, 221 ; Jordan and the Dead Sea, 222 ; S. Saba, 223 ; Valley of Ajalon, 225 ; Cave of Adullam, 229 ; Esau's Tomb, 230 ; Hebron, 231 ; Cave of Macphelam, 231 ; Pools of Solomon, 232 ; Valley of Terebinthus, 237.; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: Jerusalem and the Country about it.; title: The Greek Schismatics, 239 ; Their Profanation of the Holy Sepulchre, 241 ; The Country round Jerusalem, 245 ; Bethany, 246 ; Tomb of Lazarus, 246 ; Convent of S. Cross, 247 ; Mount of Olives, 248 ; Stations of the Via Dolorosa, 248 ; Bethlehem, 250; Catholic Eastern Rites, 250; S. John's of the Desert, 253 ; Prophecy of S. Malachi, 253 ; The Greeks and the Cupola of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 257 The Future of Protestantism, 260 ; Preparations for leaving the Holy City, 264.; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: Carmel and Tabor.; title: First Day's Journey towards Nazareth, 267 ; Bethel, 268 ; Sichem, 269 ; Samaritan Synagogue on Mount Gerizim, 269 ; Ancient Manuscript, 270 ; Sebaste, 270 ; Plain of Esdraelon, 271 ; Hermon and Tabor, 272 ; Nazareth, 272 ; Saphura, 274 ; S. Jean d'Acre, 275 ; Bay of Acre, 276 ; River Kishon, 277 ; Carmel, 278; The Druses, 280; Place of Elias' Sacrifice, 281 ; Giaffa, 282 ; The Mount of Precipitation, 282 ; Tabor, 283 ; Cana, 286 ; Tiberias, 288 ; Safet, 289 ; Panias, 290 ; Place of S. Paul's Conversion, 292 ; Damascus, 293.; title: CHAPTER IX.; title: Lebanon.; title: Damascus, 294; Murder of a Christian by the Jews, 296; Place of S. Paul's Escape, 298 ; Barrada, 299 ; Baalbek, 300 ; Mass of the Greek Rite, 307 ; Metualik Village, 309 ; Mount Lebanon, 310; The Cedars, 311; People of Lebanon, 313; Duman, 313 ; Visit to the Maronite Patriarch, 315 ; Legend of S. Marina, 316 ; Mass of the Maronite Rite, 319 ; Convent of Kanubin, 320; Mar-Antonius, 321; Eden, 322; Tripoli, 323 ; Djenin, 325 ; Beyruth, 326 ; Bigfayeh, 329.; title: CHAPTER X.; title: The Levant, Greece, and Venice.; title: Bigfayeh, 330 ; Illumination in honour of the Assumption, 332 ; the Arab tribe of Spas, 332; Beyruth, 334; Rhodes, 335; Murder of an English Traveller at Makri, 336 ; Quarantine, 338 ; Conversation with an Armenian, 339 ; Smyrna, 339 ; Bumabat, 342 ; Syra, 344 ; the old Town and Cathedral, 345 ; Church of the Jesuits, 345 ; Character of the Greek Islanders, 348 ; Athens, 349 ; Marathon, 352 ; the Piraeus, 354 ; Tomb of Themistocles, 354 ; the Parthenon, 355 ; Temples of Jupiter Olympius and of Theseus, 356 j the - Acropolis, 357 ; Eleusis, 358 ; Salamis, 358 ; Politics of Greece, 360 ; Nauplia, 364 ; Tiryns and Argos, 365 ; Tomb of Agamemnon, 367 ; Mycenae, 367; Corinth, 368; Patras, 370; Corfu, 371 ; Catholic British Soldiers, 372; Trieste, 374; Venice, 375; the Manfrini Gallery, 378 ; Notice of Cardinal Pole, 380 ; Padua, 382 ; Verona, 383 ; Conclusion, 384.; title: APPENDIX; title: No. I.; title: The Catholics of the East.; title: The Maronites, 387 ; the Greeks, 390 ; the Syrians, 394 ; the Armenians, 396 ; the Chaldeans, 400 ; the Coptic Catholics, 402 ; the Abyssinians, 403 ; the Latins, 404.; title: No. II.; title: The Separatist, or Schismatic Christians of the East, 422.; title: The Greek Communion, 425 ; the Armenians, 440 ; the Jacobites or Syrian Monophysites, 444 ; the Copts and Abyssinians, or African Monophysites, 445 ; the Nestorians, 447 ; the Protestants, 450.; title: No. III.; title: On the Holy Places of Palestine, 457.; title: No. IV.; title: Indulgences attached to Places in the Holy Land, 462. List of Dioceses in the Fifth Century, 471 ; Extract from Bingham and Thomassinus, 471 ; Certificate of Pilgrimage, 472 ; Speech of Marshal de la Tour in the Senate of Turin, 473 ; On Gothic Architecture, 477 ; References to the Plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 479.