The one primeval language : traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents... (1851)
Forster, Charles, d. 1871 · London : R. Bentley · leaf 75
ration alone sufiicing to prove, to the sa-tisfaction of every capable and unbiassed under-standing, that there was but one period, and onepeople, in the history of the world, to which, andto whom, those mysterious monuments can berationally ascribed. The consideration in ques-tion is this: the… … FROM THE KOCKS OF SINAI. 39 times, as (in most parts) utterly destitute of sus-tenance/(?r man.^ For flocks and herds, indeed,in the rainy seasons, its vallies, usually parchedand withered (an oasis here and there like WadyFeiran excepted), yield a sudden, abundant, andshort-lived vegetation. But,…
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