The sciopticon manual, explaining lantern projection in general, and the sciopticon apparatus in paricular (1877)

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Title:
The sciopticon manual, explaining lantern projection in general, and the sciopticon apparatus in paricular
Date:
1877
Publisher:
Philadelphia, J. A. Moore
Volume:
The sciopticon manual, explaining lantern projection in general, and the sciopticon apparatus in paricular
Leaf #:
000119
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
University of California Libraries
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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110 SCIOPTICON MANUAL. down from heaven, it hung heavily over the lifeless bosom of this mysterious lake." Its area is about two hundred and fifty square geographical miles. At its northern end it receives the stream of the Jordan. The depression of its surface, and the depth which it attains below that surface, combined with the absence of any outlet, render it one of the most remarkable spots on the globe. THE FORDS OP THE JORDAN. —The reach of the Jor- dan here shown is the place to which pilgrims of the Greek Church resort every year, in Holy Week, to renew their baptism by bathing in the Jordan, and it is the spot which tradition points out as the place where our Saviour was baptized. The Jordan is a rapid and tor- tuous stream, interrupted by many rapids, and annually " overflows his banks all the time of harvest." So far as this overflow extends there is a belt of luxurious vegetation, but beyond it the ground is barren. EGYPT. From time immemorial Egypt has been an object of interest to the rest of the world. Almost the dawn of Scripture light breaks upon the rocks and sands of this wonderful valley, whose vast river diffuses fertility wherever it flows. Here the children of Israel served the Pharaohs four hundred and thirty years and grew into a great nation. From the banks of the Nile they set out on that marvelous pilgrimage to Sinai and Zion, those two rocky pinnacles whence the splendors of the Law, and the mild and beneficent radiance of the Gospel, beamed forth upon mankind.