This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1792. Not illustrated. ... The inhabitants of those parts had been long looking impatiently for rain. In order that they might make the most of it, when it should fall, the peasants had raised dykes along the heights, to direct the course of the waters upon their sields. The sields lay favourably for receiving it, being formed into terraces, and these supported by walls, with ditches to preserve what water may be necessary to support vegetation. If this practice merit approbation, yet we cannot avoid condemning the unskilful expedient which those Highlanders employ for selling trees : they set sire to the root, and keep it burning till the tree fall of itself. Next day, we came to a small river which runs into the Zebid, and crofsed also several rivulets, which seem to be numerous in this part of-the country. Here, for the sirst time since our departure from Beit el Fakih, we saw plantations of coffee-trees, along the side* of the road. We now drew nearer to the river Zebid, of which a branch at this time was dry, and having its channel silled with reeds growing to the height of twenty seet, served as a line of road, which was agreeably shaded by the reeds. In the evening we arrived at Udden. The town of Udden is small and unprotected. Jt contains three hundred houses, all of stone. The Imam keeps no Dola here. An hereditary Schiech, Schiech, who is a vassal of the Imam's, is the governor. The Schiech resides in a palace, standing upon a high hill without the city. Except the immediate neighbourhood of Udden, the whole tract of country through which we travelled in this excursion is thinly peopled. But the territory of the town is so much the more populous, on account of the abundant produce of its coffee-trees, which is esteemed the very best coffee in all Arabia. Chap. Ill, From Udden t...

Travels Through Arabia: v. 1 (Folios Archive Library): v. 1 (Folios Archive Library)

Travels through Arabia and other countries in the East, performed by M. Niebuhr ...

Travels through Arabia and other countries of the East

Niebuhr, Carsten, 1733-1815; Heron, Robert, 1764-1807; Niebuhr, Carsten, 1733-1815. Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern; Niebuhr, Carsten, 1733-1815. Beschreibung von Arabien

Carten Niebuhr, M. Niebuhr, Carsten Niebuhr

Carsten Niebuhr, Carten Niebuhr, M. Niebuhr

Reading, UK: Garnet Pub.

Garnet Publishing

Garnet Education

Garnet Pub Ltd

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

New ed., Reading, UK, England, 1994

Reading (Britain), 1994

Volume 1, 1994

May 1994

PS, 1997

Abridged and adapted by the translator for the "public in general": v. 1 from v. 1 of C. Niebuhr's Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern (published 1774) and v. 2 from his Beschreibung von Arabien (published 1772).
Originally published: Edinburgh : R. Morison and Son, 1792.
Two maps on two folded leaves laid in.

2 v. : 22 cm
Abridged and adapted by the translator for the "public in general": v. 1 from v. 1 of C. Niebuhr's Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern (published 1774) and v. 2 from his Beschreibung von Arabien (published 1772)
Originally published: Edinburgh : R. Morison and Son, 1792
Two maps on two folded leaves laid in

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