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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
make the houses themselves roomy and surrounded by courts and gardens, because without air the
heat of the rooms would be intolerable. The Eastern architects' art lies in so constructing your
TOMB-MOSQUE OF EL-ASHRAF BARSABAY.
In the Eastern Cemetery, or so-called " Tombs of the Khalifs." It is constructed of alternate courses of pale red and yellowish white limestone.
Barsabay died a.d. 1438.
house that you cannot look into your neighbour's windows, nor be into yours; and the obvious
way of attaining this end is to build the rooms round a high open court into which and out of
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
make the houses themselves roomy and surrounded by courts and gardens, because without air the
heat of the rooms would be intolerable. The Eastern architects' art lies in so constructing your
TOMB-MOSQUE OF EL-ASHRAF BARSABAY.
In the Eastern Cemetery, or so-called " Tombs of the Khalifs." It is constructed of alternate courses of pale red and yellowish white limestone.
Barsabay died a.d. 1438.
house that you cannot look into your neighbour's windows, nor be into yours; and the obvious
way of attaining this end is to build the rooms round a high open court into which and out of