Letters from the East: Written During a Recent Tour Through Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, the Holy Land, Syria, and Greece, Volum 2H. Colburn, 1826 |
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Letters from the East: Written During a Recent Tour Through Turkey ..., Volum 2 John Carne Visualització completa - 1826 |
Letters from the East: Written During a Recent Tour Through Turkey ..., Volum 2 John Carne Visualització completa - 1826 |
Letters from the East: Written During a Recent Tour Through Turkey ..., Volum 2 John Carne Visualització completa - 1826 |
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Pàgina 345 - Now Baalath being an important post, and not far from Damascus, we may readily believe that it would be one of the first cities attacked by Rezon and the Syrians ; this might have caused a suspension, or a total cessation of the works, which is corroborated...
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Pàgina 79 - East ; it is sold every morning in small light cakes, perfectly white, and surpasses in quality even that of Paris. These cakes, with clouted cream, sold in the streets fresh every morning, the most delicious honey, and Arabian coffee, formed our daily breakfast.
Pàgina 12 - ... several deep caverns, where the benighted Bedouin sometimes finds a home. No unpleasant effluvia are perceptible around it, and birds are seen occasionally flying across. For a considerable distance from the bank the water appeared very shallow : this, with the soft slime of the bottom, and the fatigue we had undergone, prevented our trying its buoyant properties by bathing. A few inches beneath the surface of the mud are found those black sulphureous stones, out of which crosses are made and...