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 and Antiquities of the Countries VisitedW. Curry, jun., 1844 - 648 עמודים |
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עמוד 15
... arches having the impost , ornamented on the left side , with a rudely carved ram's head , bearing the crescent on the forehead . Near this the most trying part of the contest took place , and , beside one of the walls that surround it ...
... arches having the impost , ornamented on the left side , with a rudely carved ram's head , bearing the crescent on the forehead . Near this the most trying part of the contest took place , and , beside one of the walls that surround it ...
עמוד 42
... arches are some of them round , some of them lanceolated : the height of the cen- tral one from the water - course ... arch . This walk is the scene of frequent robberies , as few would like to wrestle on so slight a footing , and over ...
... arches are some of them round , some of them lanceolated : the height of the cen- tral one from the water - course ... arch . This walk is the scene of frequent robberies , as few would like to wrestle on so slight a footing , and over ...
עמוד 43
... arches , you behold its deep gorge and precipitous sides crowded with orange groves , quintas , and windmills , and a prospect presents itself seldom to be equalled in loveliness ; the mingled effect of light and shade , mellowed by the ...
... arches , you behold its deep gorge and precipitous sides crowded with orange groves , quintas , and windmills , and a prospect presents itself seldom to be equalled in loveliness ; the mingled effect of light and shade , mellowed by the ...
עמוד 47
... arch , deeply groined , and of exquisite workmanship , and the altar , which reaches to the roof , is looked upon as a piece of most ela- borate art . All is going fast to ruin , even the figures of saints and virgins that still stand ...
... arch , deeply groined , and of exquisite workmanship , and the altar , which reaches to the roof , is looked upon as a piece of most ela- borate art . All is going fast to ruin , even the figures of saints and virgins that still stand ...
עמוד 56
... arches ; there , jut out into rude battlements , or flying buttresses , and assume , in many places , the appearance of some half - submerged cathedral , with its turrets and pinnacles rising above the crystal wave . FIRST APPEARANCE OF ...
... arches ; there , jut out into rude battlements , or flying buttresses , and assume , in many places , the appearance of some half - submerged cathedral , with its turrets and pinnacles rising above the crystal wave . FIRST APPEARANCE OF ...
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afforded Alexandria Algiers ancient animals appearance Arabs arches basalt Básha beautiful Bedawees beneath boat Cairo called camels centre chambers Cleopatra's needles climate coast colour Corunna Coural covered dress dromedary Egypt Egyptian English entrance erected European feet French Funchal gate Gibraltar Greek Guanches harbour head height Herodotus hills Holy horses houses inhabitants invalids island Jerusalem Jews Josephus Kabyles Kastelorizo land light Lisbon look Madeira marble miles Mohammad Alee Mohammadan Mooslims morning mosque Mount Mount Sion mountains natives night Nile ornamented passed persons pillar plain Pompey's pillar port present principal pyramids rain remains remarkable residence rise rock roof round ruins scene seen sepulchres shore side Sion Sooltan spot stones streets surrounded Syria Telmessus temple Teneriffe tombs tower town traveller trees Turkish Turks Tyre valley vegetation vessels wall whole wind