Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773, Volym 2James Ballantyne, 1804 - 436 sidor |
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... suppose , by our lights , that we were awake , they were afraid . The women seldom marry after sixteen ; we saw several with child , who said they were not eleven years old . Yet I did not observe that the men were less in size , less ...
... suppose , by our lights , that we were awake , they were afraid . The women seldom marry after sixteen ; we saw several with child , who said they were not eleven years old . Yet I did not observe that the men were less in size , less ...
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... suppose the common houses of the ancients , in these warm countries , were constructed of very slight materials , after they left their caves in the mountains . There was indeed no need for any other . Not knowing the regularity of the ...
... suppose the common houses of the ancients , in these warm countries , were constructed of very slight materials , after they left their caves in the mountains . There was indeed no need for any other . Not knowing the regularity of the ...
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... suppose , the finest vase in the world . Its cover is still upon it , ( broken on one side , ) and it has a figure in relief on the outside . It is not probably the tomb of Osimandyas , because Diodorus * says , that it was ten stadia ...
... suppose , the finest vase in the world . Its cover is still upon it , ( broken on one side , ) and it has a figure in relief on the outside . It is not probably the tomb of Osimandyas , because Diodorus * says , that it was ten stadia ...
Sida 35
... suppose , about twenty feet broad ; I speak only by guess , for I did not measure . The side- walls , as well as the roof of this passage , are covered with a coat of stucco , of a finer and more equal grain , or surface , than I ever ...
... suppose , about twenty feet broad ; I speak only by guess , for I did not measure . The side- walls , as well as the roof of this passage , are covered with a coat of stucco , of a finer and more equal grain , or surface , than I ever ...
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... suppose , made at the instance of the observer , by varying the shape of the point of the obelisk to get rid of the pen- umbra . At Carnac we saw the remains of two vast rows of sphinxes , one on the right - hand , the other on the left ...
... suppose , made at the instance of the observer , by varying the shape of the point of the obelisk to get rid of the pen- umbra . At Carnac we saw the remains of two vast rows of sphinxes , one on the right - hand , the other on the left ...
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