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48 PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
known to modern commerce, while Beirut is monopolizing the Syrian trade. The art
of extracting the purple dye from the murex purpura, millions of whose broken fragments
A PEASANT WOMAN CHURNING.
The churn is made of the tanned skin of a goat stripped off whole ; it is partly filled with milk and the extremities being securely closed, it is
suspended in any convenient place, by four ropes fastened to the skin of the legs. It is then regularly moved to and fro, with a jerk, until
the process is completed.
form a hill at the south-west gate of Sidon, is hopelessly lost. The arts of gold and silver
fancy work and the weaving of silk and wool have left Sidon and Tyre for the more thriving
market of Beirut and Damascus.
known to modern commerce, while Beirut is monopolizing the Syrian trade. The art
of extracting the purple dye from the murex purpura, millions of whose broken fragments
A PEASANT WOMAN CHURNING.
The churn is made of the tanned skin of a goat stripped off whole ; it is partly filled with milk and the extremities being securely closed, it is
suspended in any convenient place, by four ropes fastened to the skin of the legs. It is then regularly moved to and fro, with a jerk, until
the process is completed.
form a hill at the south-west gate of Sidon, is hopelessly lost. The arts of gold and silver
fancy work and the weaving of silk and wool have left Sidon and Tyre for the more thriving
market of Beirut and Damascus.