obscure spring
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back cover (detail)
via landing on obscure spring at 479 (bottom),
in “Reply to the Article ‘Stewarts of Allanton’,” in The Edinburgh Monthly Magazine 5:1 (August 1817)
Bodleian copy, digitized October 20, 2006
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other obscurities, same expedition, included desert, obscurity, and darkness
re: Sepphoris (a cosmopolitan, Hellenic-inclined city in Palestine), whose “people were likened to” those epithets, according to The Jewish Encyclopedia vol. 11 (1905): 200
tags:
clouds; incidents of travel; obscurities; springs