Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and Along the Shores of the Mediterranean: Including a Visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus and Greece : with Observations on the Present State and Prospects of Egypt and Palestine and on the Climate, Natural History, Antiquities, Etc. of the Countries Visited ; in Two Volumes, כרך 1Curry, 1840 - 464 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 38
עמוד 20
... principal assault , and gained the heights occupied by the enemy's lines ; and cer- tainly it was a position of extraordinary strength and advantage , commanding a view of not only the whole extent towards the town , but of the inland ...
... principal assault , and gained the heights occupied by the enemy's lines ; and cer- tainly it was a position of extraordinary strength and advantage , commanding a view of not only the whole extent towards the town , but of the inland ...
עמוד 23
... principal food of the lower classes , and all are en- gaged in bearing it home . You hear nothing around * Note furnished to the author by Sir Charles Napier : " The following reminds one of the fact related by Xenophon . As in one ...
... principal food of the lower classes , and all are en- gaged in bearing it home . You hear nothing around * Note furnished to the author by Sir Charles Napier : " The following reminds one of the fact related by Xenophon . As in one ...
עמוד 24
... principal fish , from its numbers and its commercial importance , is the sardinha , ( clupea sardina . ) The mode of taking them is peculiar , a large flat - bottomed boat , holding upwards of thirty people , is anchored where the shoal ...
... principal fish , from its numbers and its commercial importance , is the sardinha , ( clupea sardina . ) The mode of taking them is peculiar , a large flat - bottomed boat , holding upwards of thirty people , is anchored where the shoal ...
עמוד 26
... lamentable state of ignorance in this all - important branch of knowledge . The mattock is the principal implement of husbandry . The sheep are wretched in the extreme , being not larger than CLIMATE . 27 a three - months ' lamb in.
... lamentable state of ignorance in this all - important branch of knowledge . The mattock is the principal implement of husbandry . The sheep are wretched in the extreme , being not larger than CLIMATE . 27 a three - months ' lamb in.
עמוד 41
... - Chief " down to the cheeping mid , the usual buyers and sellers that throng the avenues to the principal port of a large city ; and the never - failing gang of loungers to be found 42 CHURCH OF THE ESTRELLA . wherever hotels , wine.
... - Chief " down to the cheeping mid , the usual buyers and sellers that throng the avenues to the principal port of a large city ; and the never - failing gang of loungers to be found 42 CHURCH OF THE ESTRELLA . wherever hotels , wine.
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Alexandria Algiers amongst animals appearance Arab basalt Basha beautiful Bedawees beneath boats Cairo camel Canaries carried centre Cleopatra's needle climate clothed coast colour consul Corunna costume Coural covered dress dromedary Egypt Egyptian elevation English erected European feet finest fish French Funchal garden Grand Canary greater number groves Guanches guarda-costas hand handsome harbour hareem head height HERCULES TOWER hills horses houses immense invalids island Kabyles ladies land light Lisbon look Madeira Mafra marble miles Mohammadan Moorish Moors morning mosque mountains natives night o'clock officers orange Oratava ornament passed pillar plain plants Pompey's pillar Portugal present principal quantity red-legged partridge residence rise rock roof round sails scene seen shore side Spanish spot streets surrounded temperature Teneriffe tomb town trees tufa Turkish Turks valley vegetation vessels walls wind wine