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Desert secrets.(Up Front)(Editorial)

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| October 01, 2003 | Brown, Peter | Copyright American Museum of Natural History Dec 2008/Jan 2009. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It is impossible to conceive any thing more aweful or sublime than such an approach [to the ancient city]: the width [of the desert canyon] is not more than just sufficient for the passage of two horsemen abreast; the sides are in all parts perpendicular, varying from 400 to 700 feet in height; ... and there is little more light than in a cavern.... We followed this half subterranean passage for the space of nearly two miles, the sides increasing in height as the path continually descended.

--Charles Leonard Irby and James Mangles, Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria and the Holy Land (London, 1868), quoted in Petra: A Travellers' Guide, by Rosalyn Maqsood

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