Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the edom of the prophesis . of amusement, considering the prospectit afforded on all sides of death and its man-sions, which touch the very sides of the a strange habit of mind the people of Petramust have possessed, thus to familiarise themselvesso constantly to the idea of death, as Mithridatesaccustomed himself to poison in order to renderhimself insensible to its effects! M. Linant took the same view from a greaterdistance by ascending the ravine. I have endea-voured to preserve in this design the
Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the edom of the prophesis . of amusement, considering the prospectit afforded on all sides of death and its man-sions, which touch the very sides of the a strange habit of mind the people of Petramust have possessed, thus to familiarise themselvesso constantly to the idea of death, as Mithridatesaccustomed himself to poison in order to renderhimself insensible to its effects! M. Linant took the same view from a greaterdistance by ascending the ravine. I have endea-voured to preserve in this design the character ofthe original, although it differs from the precedingview in some points. Funereal monuments areseen on all sides decorating the rocks from thebase to the summit. On the left hand steps arecut in a ravine which lead to a fortress and toother tombs. As an excursion to them would takeus to a distance from the Fellahs, we felt no diffi-culty in postponing it to another day. Behind the mass of rocks which are seen to theright, there is a tomb that may be considered asm 2 1 Ci-i DEFILE OF IN FRONT OF THE THEATRE a model of the style which chiefly prevails amongthe monuments of Petra. I shall not here un-dertake to settle the points of resemblance whichmight determine their general architectural style:it will be sufficient to exhibit this tomb as a typeof those monuments, and they are by far the mostnumerous, which do not owe their origin to thedomination or the taste of the Romans. The only entrance to Petra is through a narrowravine cut through the rocks, and bordered oneach side by superb tombs. This ravine, so curious in its conformation, was
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