New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals, Translations, and Abridgements, Volume 2Sir Richard Phillips, 1819 - Voyages and travels |
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... possession of the Turks . mercial opulence had been long removed to Smyrna and Scala Nova , and what Pliny formerly represented as the lustre and glory of Asia , is now a heap of ruins , and overspread with the gross darkness of ...
... possession of the Turks . mercial opulence had been long removed to Smyrna and Scala Nova , and what Pliny formerly represented as the lustre and glory of Asia , is now a heap of ruins , and overspread with the gross darkness of ...
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... possession of it . The ancients frequently make mention of a kind of garlick ( echalote ) that grew in its neighbourhood . Origen takes notice of some wells there- abouts that , agreeably to tradition , had been dug by Abraham and Isaac ...
... possession of it . The ancients frequently make mention of a kind of garlick ( echalote ) that grew in its neighbourhood . Origen takes notice of some wells there- abouts that , agreeably to tradition , had been dug by Abraham and Isaac ...
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... possession of Europeans . I must confess I had no opportunity of consult- ing any person of a philosophical turn ; and as for the bulk of the townspeople , they have as little heed about a volcano which threatens one day to bury them ...
... possession of Europeans . I must confess I had no opportunity of consult- ing any person of a philosophical turn ; and as for the bulk of the townspeople , they have as little heed about a volcano which threatens one day to bury them ...
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taining a particular Account of the Icebergs and other Phenomena which | |
Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Henderick Portenger | 1 |
Travels of M Burckhardt in Egypt and Nubia | 1 |
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