The earliest recorded discovery of thermal springs / by Prosser James.

  • James Prosser, 1836-1918.
Date:
1897
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Credit: The earliest recorded discovery of thermal springs / by Prosser James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    dwell together, and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle ” ; and we have (v. 6) a graphic account of Esau, his wives, sons, daughters, and dependents, setting out on their journey. What more natural than that he should direct his steps to the land of one of his wives, where her ancestor Seir, had been the greatest patriarchal ruler ; where his descendants her near relatives, were the governing sheiks; and where her own father, Anah-Beeri, a prince of distinction, the celebrated discoverer of the thermal springs; would doubtless be glad to welcome his daughter and her children in the train of the mighty prince to whom he had married her ? Her sons became dukes like these heads of tribes and we may picture these numerous kindred chiefs dwelling together in amity for a con- siderable period. Esau's descendants grew in number and power; in the next generation we find his grandsons by his other wives are recognised dukes, and, eventually the Edomites outnumbered the earlier inhabitants, and after, perhaps, some fighting, conquered and dispossessed or absorbed them. But Esau may have slept with his fathers long before dissensions arose between his descendants and those of the tribe of his wives.