"Ethnologically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... days of the ancient Midianites the frontiers were so elastic that, at times, but never for a continuity, they embraced Sinai, and were pushed forward even into Central Palestine. Moreover, I would prolong the limits eastward as far as the Damascus-Medinah road. This would be politically and ethnologically correct. With the exception of the Ma'azah country, the whole belongs to Egypt; and all the tribes, formerly Nabathaan, are now more or less Egypto-Arab, never questioning the rights of his Highness the Viceroy, ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton |
