The Jordan valley and Petra . mass is cutagain at right angles to the Sik, by two transverseravines, which form with the Sik a perfect ravine to the right is an inaccessible one, thatto the left we named the Fairy Dell (see p. 165).The morning showers had started a thousand littlerills of sparkling water, white fleecy clouds floatedin the blue sky above, and down this Fairy Dellcame the floods of the morning sunlight. Wereached the spot at a moment when all natureseemed conspiring to enhance the thrilling effect ofthe scene. The surrounding cliff, more than fivehundred feet from side
The Jordan valley and Petra . mass is cutagain at right angles to the Sik, by two transverseravines, which form with the Sik a perfect ravine to the right is an inaccessible one, thatto the left we named the Fairy Dell (see p. 165).The morning showers had started a thousand littlerills of sparkling water, white fleecy clouds floatedin the blue sky above, and down this Fairy Dellcame the floods of the morning sunlight. Wereached the spot at a moment when all natureseemed conspiring to enhance the thrilling effect ofthe scene. The surrounding cliff, more than fivehundred feet from side to side, cut and fashionedby the hand of time, the frost, the heat, and thetempest, its enchanting forms dripping with rain-drops, which caught and seemed to hold the slant-ing sunbeams ; all these formed a matchless settingfor the gem of Pharaohs Treasury, carved like acameo at its base. If the combination of the sun-light, the coloring, and the work of time on the cliffwas passing beautiful, then that of the sunlight, the. »9 Gorge of the Sik beyond the Treasury
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