Eliza Roxcy Snow

Name: Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow:One of The Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — Letter XI
Author: Eliza Roxcy Snow

Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow… (1846)

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“Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow:One of The Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — Letter XI”, published in 1846, is a work by Eliza Roxcy Snow. It explores elements such as Damascus, the Sea of Galilee and mosque.

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Eliza Roxcy Snow, Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow… (1846)

“ A fine macadamized road leading over some fifty miles, from Damascus to Beyrout, constructed by a French company, is the only decent road in Syria or Palestine. We passed over this thoroughfare
through an interest- ing country, possessing natural scenery of peculiar beauty and grandeur, arriving at Beyrout, a seaport on the Mediterranean, in renewed health and vigor, gratified and instructed by our tour through Syria and Palestine. ”

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Eliza Roxcy Snow, Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow… (1846)

“ Much of the richness and beauty of the Plain of Damascus is owing to the invigorating influences of this stream of Bible celebrity, which flows through it from west to east, and is conducted from its channel, and carried on to the plain. Another mode of irrigation, however, is adopted in places where the Abana cannot be reached. It being rather peculiar, I will describe it: A well is first dug till water is discovered; the slope of the plain is then followed, when another is sunk, forty or fifty yards distant ”

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“ Syria and Palestine, in many respects, we have found the most interesting of any country we have visited, as regards the character and condition of the people, its natural scenery, its having formed the great theatre, where were displayed, during many centuries, the dealings of God with favored Israel, as well as its being the opening scene of the Gospel dispensation ”

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Eliza Roxcy Snow, Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow… (1846)

“ The Sultan graciously complimented him on his peculiar foresight, dismissed him with flattering expressions, told him to go home, and a commissioner should be sent to examine his work, and if approved, he should be abundantly rewarded. ”

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Eliza Roxcy Snow, Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow… (1846)

“ No sooner, however, had he returned, than an order was sent by the Sultan to have him beheaded immediately, and the following inscription engraved upon his tomb, "Let this architect's head be restored when this mosque becomes the centre of Damascus." The gentleman said he read this inscription, in Arabic, on a decaying tomb near the mosque.
The external view of the private dwellings of the people is not inviting. The rough mud walls and projecting upper chambers, supported by decay- ing timbers, have a singularly rickety appearance. ”

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Eliza Roxcy Snow, Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow… (1846)

“ Damascus. An unfor- tunate Architect.
ATHENS, GREECE, APRIL lOrn, 1873. Editor Deseret News :
We are in the city of Athens, surrounded by the ruined temples and crumbling walls of ancient Greece; have stood on the lofty summit of the Acropolis, beside the marble columns of the Parthenon, in the midst of broken pillars and fallen temples, looking down 011 modern Athens, the Plains of Attica, the famous Hill of Mars, and off on the "Flowery Hymettus." We have met the King of Greece on the sidewalk of Athens, cane in hand, and in simple costume, like an ordinary gentleman ”

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Eliza Roxcy Snow, Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow… (1846)

“ The country about the Sea of Galilee was then densely populated cities and towns occupied its shores, the sum- mite and slopes of the surrounding hills. Bethsaida, Capernaum, Chorazin and many larger cities were teeming with inhabitants and in the height of prosperity. ”

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