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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... thought them too near to have any thing to do with either of them . At Rere mont there are a great number of Persian wheels , to draw the water for the sugar canes , which belong to VOL . II . A Christians . The water thus brought up ...
... thought them too near to have any thing to do with either of them . At Rere mont there are a great number of Persian wheels , to draw the water for the sugar canes , which belong to VOL . II . A Christians . The water thus brought up ...
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... of ill - looking people about him . As I thought this was * Theophrast , Hist . Plan . lib . iii . cap . 8. —lib . iv . cap . 2 . + Strabo , lib . vii . p . 941 . some quarrel among the natives , I took no notice 16 TRAVELS TO DICOVER.
... of ill - looking people about him . As I thought this was * Theophrast , Hist . Plan . lib . iii . cap . 8. —lib . iv . cap . 2 . + Strabo , lib . vii . p . 941 . some quarrel among the natives , I took no notice 16 TRAVELS TO DICOVER.
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... thought he had been blind and weak ; and the boat was not within three feet of the shore , when , placing one foot upon the gunnel , hẻ leaped clean upon land . We slacked our vessel down the stream a few yards , filling our sails , and ...
... thought he had been blind and weak ; and the boat was not within three feet of the shore , when , placing one foot upon the gunnel , hẻ leaped clean upon land . We slacked our vessel down the stream a few yards , filling our sails , and ...
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... thought his boat did not go and that it was growing into a tree . ever , freshened up towards noon , his fears . We passed a large town , called How , on the west side of the Nile . About four o'clock in the afternoon we arrived at El ...
... thought his boat did not go and that it was growing into a tree . ever , freshened up towards noon , his fears . We passed a large town , called How , on the west side of the Nile . About four o'clock in the afternoon we arrived at El ...
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... thought to be an emblem of the resurrection . My own con- jecture is , that the apis was the emblem of the arable land of Egypt ; the crocodile , the typhon , or caco- dæmon , the type of an over - abundant Nile ; that the scarabæus was ...
... thought to be an emblem of the resurrection . My own con- jecture is , that the apis was the emblem of the arable land of Egypt ; the crocodile , the typhon , or caco- dæmon , the type of an over - abundant Nile ; that the scarabæus was ...
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