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| | Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea |
 | | The night passed away quietly, and a light wind springing up from the north, even the most anxious were at length lulled to sleep by the rippling waves, as they brattled upon the shore. |
 | | The ravine was shut in, on each side, by high, barren cliffs of chalky limestone, which, while they excluded the air, threw their reverberated heat upon us, and made the day's work an uncomfortable one. |
 | | Near the chapel of St. Saba, is a singular cemetery, containing a great many skulls, piled against the walls,--a sad memorial of an act of cruelty on the part of the Turks and the Persians;--Chosroes, king of Persia, having, in the sixth century, put to death a number of monks, whose skulls are collected here. |
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