Travels Through Turkey in Asia, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, and Other Parts of the World: ... Particular and Faithul Account of what is Most Remarkable in the Manners, Religion, Polity, Antiquities and Natural History of Those Countries with a Curious Description of Jerusalem ... and Other Places ...Fullarton, 1810 - 703 עמודים |
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... coloured , some fluted in a direct , and others in a spiral manner . We were really surprised at the great number of chapiters , frizes , and pedestals , other fragments , with scraps of inscriptions scarcely legible , though in se ...
... coloured , some fluted in a direct , and others in a spiral manner . We were really surprised at the great number of chapiters , frizes , and pedestals , other fragments , with scraps of inscriptions scarcely legible , though in se ...
עמוד 28
... colour , like a common goose , and has a body as big as a swan , but the neck is not so long . It has a beak sixteen or eighteen inches in length , and about two inches broad where it is widest ; but when it opens , the un- der part of ...
... colour , like a common goose , and has a body as big as a swan , but the neck is not so long . It has a beak sixteen or eighteen inches in length , and about two inches broad where it is widest ; but when it opens , the un- der part of ...
עמוד 29
... colour . The modern Greeks cail this bird toubana , and the Persians gave it the name of tacob , or the water- drawer . Some say there are two sorts of pelicans , one feeding on fish , which I have been describing ; the other a land ...
... colour . The modern Greeks cail this bird toubana , and the Persians gave it the name of tacob , or the water- drawer . Some say there are two sorts of pelicans , one feeding on fish , which I have been describing ; the other a land ...
עמוד 31
... colour , and assuming those of the objects near which it is placed . The usual colour of this crea- ture , at least of such as are found about Smyrna , is green , darker towards the back , and lighter towards the belly , inclining to a ...
... colour , and assuming those of the objects near which it is placed . The usual colour of this crea- ture , at least of such as are found about Smyrna , is green , darker towards the back , and lighter towards the belly , inclining to a ...
עמוד 32
... colour ; but we never perceived it to change either red or blue , though wrapped in cloth of those colours for several hours together . When we kept it shut up in a box , its colour was usual- ly a mixture of green and yellow ; and it ...
... colour ; but we never perceived it to change either red or blue , though wrapped in cloth of those colours for several hours together . When we kept it shut up in a box , its colour was usual- ly a mixture of green and yellow ; and it ...
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