LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4057664580719

Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

       MONASTERIES OF THE LEVANT.

       PART I.

       EGYPT IN 1833.

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       NATRON LAKES.

       CHAPTER VII.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       THE CONVENT OF THE PULLEY.

       CHAPTER IX.

       RUINED MONASTERY AT THEBES.

       CHAPTER X.

       THE WHITE MONASTERY.

       CHAPTER XI.

       THE ISLAND OF PHILŒ, &c.

       CHAPTER XII.

       MONASTERIES OF THE LEVANT.

       PART II.

       JERUSALEM AND THE MONASTERY OF ST. SABBA. 1834.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       CHAPTER XV.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       MONASTERIES OF THE LEVANT.

       PART III.

       THE MONASTERIES OF METEORA.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       CHAPTER XVIII.

       CHAPTER XIX.

       CHAPTER XX.

       CHAPTER XXI.

       MONASTERIES OF THE LEVANT.

       PART IV.

       THE MONASTERIES OF MOUNT ATHOS.

       CHAPTER XXII.

       CHAPTER XXIII.

       CHAPTER XXIV.

       CHAPTER XXV.

       CHAPTER XXVI.

       CHAPTER XXVII.

       CHAPTER XXVIII.

PREFACE.

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      In presenting to the public another book of travels in the East, when it is already overwhelmed with little volumes about palm-trees and camels, and reflections on the Pyramids, I am aware that I am committing an act which requires some better excuse for so unwarrantable an intrusion on the patience of the reader than any that I am able to offer.

      The origin of these pages is as follows:—I was staying by myself in an old country-house belonging to my family, but not often inhabited by them, and, having nothing to do in the evening, I looked about for some occupation to amuse the passing hours. In the room where I was sitting there was a large book-case full of ancient manuscripts, many of which had been collected by myself, in various out-of-the-way places, in different parts of the world. Taking some of these ponderous volumes from their shelves, I turned over their wide vellum leaves, and admired the antiquity of one, and the gold and azure which gleamed upon the pages of another. The sight of these books brought before my mind many scenes and recollections of the countries from which they came, and I said to myself, I know what I will do; I will write down some account of the most curious of these manuscripts, and the places in which they were found, as well as some of the adventures which I encountered in the pursuit of my venerable game.

      I sat down accordingly, and in a short time accumulated a heap of papers connected more or less with the history of the ancient manuscripts; at the desire of some of my friends I selected the following pages, and it is with great diffidence that I present them to the public. If they have any merits whatever, these must consist in their containing descriptions of localities but seldom visited in modern times; or

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