An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile: Abridged from the Original WorkH.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row., 1814 - 373 sidor |
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... half - a - mile between the foot of the mountain and the Libyan fhore . Having gained the western edge of the palm - trees at Mohannan , our travellers had a fair view of the Pyra- mids at Geeza , which lie in a direction nearly S. W. ...
... half - a - mile between the foot of the mountain and the Libyan fhore . Having gained the western edge of the palm - trees at Mohannan , our travellers had a fair view of the Pyra- mids at Geeza , which lie in a direction nearly S. W. ...
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... half a mile on each fide of the coptish convent . Thefe poor wretch- es know , that though they may fow , yet , from the vio- lence of the Arabs , they fhall never reap , and therefore leave the ground defolate . On the fide oppofite to ...
... half a mile on each fide of the coptish convent . Thefe poor wretch- es know , that though they may fow , yet , from the vio- lence of the Arabs , they fhall never reap , and therefore leave the ground defolate . On the fide oppofite to ...
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... half an hour after , crying he was poifoned . They paffed the Mollé , a fmall village with a great number of acacia trees intermixed with the plantations of palms . Thefe occafion a pleafing variety , not only from the difference of the ...
... half an hour after , crying he was poifoned . They paffed the Mollé , a fmall village with a great number of acacia trees intermixed with the plantations of palms . Thefe occafion a pleafing variety , not only from the difference of the ...
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... half - a - foot , in fome places , but we have ftill the fame figures , or rather a lefs variety , than at Den- dera . A number of robbers , who much refemble our gyp- fies , live in the holes of the mountains above Thebes . They are ...
... half - a - foot , in fome places , but we have ftill the fame figures , or rather a lefs variety , than at Den- dera . A number of robbers , who much refemble our gyp- fies , live in the holes of the mountains above Thebes . They are ...
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... half a mile broad . It is divided into a number of fmall channels , by large blocks of granite , from thirty to forty feet high . The current , confined for a long course between the rocky mountains of Nubia , tries to expand itfelf ...
... half a mile broad . It is divided into a number of fmall channels , by large blocks of granite , from thirty to forty feet high . The current , confined for a long course between the rocky mountains of Nubia , tries to expand itfelf ...
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An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq. Into Abyssinia ... James Bruce,Samuel Shaw Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1790 |
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Sida 218 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Sida 369 - ... did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more.
Sida 320 - Dextrous, too, as the riders are, the elephant sometimes reaches them with his trunk, with which he dashes the horse against the ground, and then sets his feet upon him, till he tears him limb from limb with his proboscis ; *a great many hunters die this way.
Sida 218 - It is infamy for a man to go to market to buy any thing. He cannot carry water or bake bread ; but he must wash the clothes belonging to both sexes, and, in this function, the women cannot help him.
Sida 353 - The inside of her lip she had made black with antimony. Her ears reached down to her shoulders, and had the appearance of wings ; she had in each of them a large ring of gold, somewhat smaller than a man's little finger, and about five inches diameter.
Sida 221 - In the mean time, those within are very much elevated; love lights all its fires, and every thing is permitted with absolute freedom. There is no...
Sida 279 - I ran down the hill, towards the little island of green sods, which was about two hundred yards distant; the whole side of the hill was thick grown over with flowers, the large bulbous roots of which appearing above the surface of the ground, and their skins coming off on treading upon them, occasioned...
Sida 208 - Sierra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. — One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge...
Sida 201 - ... of the heavens. Other countries are not like this, though this was never so bad as it is now. These wretches here are enemies to strangers; if they saw you alone in your own parlour, their first thought would be how to murder you ; though they knew they were to get nothing by it, they would murder you for mere mischief.
Sida 16 - Tyre seems to have been only a concealment of their knowledge of cochineal, as, had they depended upon the fish for their dye, if the whole city of Tyre applied to nothing else but fishing, they would not have coloured twenty yards of cloth in a year.