ROUTE 33. TIBERIAS TO DAMASCUS, BY JISR BENAT YAKUB.
Tiberias to Khan Minyeh (Rte. 28
Khan Jubb Yusef
Jisr Benât Ya’kûb—bridge
Nawarán—ruined village
Tell el-Khanzîr, on rt.
Kuneiterah—a ruin
Sa’sa’.
Khan esh-
Kaukab .
Damascus (Rte. 31)
Worms (*Furopäischer Hof, at the station, with restaurant, R. 2-2 ½, B. 1 .#, D. 2 # 50 pf.; *Alter Kaiser, Andreas-Str., near the cathedral; *Hôtel Hartmann, Kämmerer-Str, ; these of the first class. Bellevue, opposite Luther's Monument; Rheinischer Hof, on the river, ¾ M. from the town; Railway Restaurant; Worret's restaurant), one of the most ancient, and in the middle ages most important, towns in Germany, lies in the rich plain of the Wonnegau, ¾ M. from the Rhine. It contains 15,000 inhab.
Fourteenth edition. London: John Murray, 1871. 557 pp.
Clemens may have used this guidebook in the Swiss Alps, though be remarks that Baedeker “has run Murray out of Europe” (NB 16, N&J 2: 193).
Fourth edition. London: John Murray, 1869.
Clemens may have used this guidebook on his visit to Gibraltar (cf. NB 8).
Nineteenth edition. Maps. London:John Murray, 1877. 448 pp.
Clemens seems to be referring to page 422 of this guidebook in comments he made in July 1878 (NB 15, N&J2: 118).
English, French, German, Italian, with Vocabulary, Short Questions, Etc. Nineteenth edition. Coblenz: K. Baedeker, 1869.
Inscription: “D. R. Ford/New York”. Catalogs: QF Martinez, “Good Condition”; Ball 2016 inventory, red cloth, gilt lettering. Location: Mark Twain Archive, Gannett-Tripp Learning Center, Elmira College, Elmira, New York. This foreign language resource was available to Clemens whenever he visited Quarry Farm in Elmira.
6th ed. Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1878. 341 pp.
Clemens presumably used this guidebook in July 1878; see Notebook 15 (N&J 2: 116),