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... covered with it , proves how extensive its cultivation must once have been , and how conge- nial to it is the soil in which , after ages of neglect , it still flourishes . Its crops of grain were as abundant as those of Mauritius and ...
... covered with it , proves how extensive its cultivation must once have been , and how conge- nial to it is the soil in which , after ages of neglect , it still flourishes . Its crops of grain were as abundant as those of Mauritius and ...
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... covered with mats and plaster , are not impervious to the winter rains . This is no unfavourable account of the houses of Benghazi ; and when I add , that the streets , filled with loose sea - sand , are kept tolerably clean - remark ...
... covered with mats and plaster , are not impervious to the winter rains . This is no unfavourable account of the houses of Benghazi ; and when I add , that the streets , filled with loose sea - sand , are kept tolerably clean - remark ...
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... covered with old tombs , many of which are rifled , but not a few still yield vases and stalactites of terra cotta . It was from here that M. de Bourville obtained the splendid Panathenaic vases which adorn the Museum of the Louvre ...
... covered with old tombs , many of which are rifled , but not a few still yield vases and stalactites of terra cotta . It was from here that M. de Bourville obtained the splendid Panathenaic vases which adorn the Museum of the Louvre ...
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... covered by rough flattish stones . These also are always found completely choked with sand ; they contain vases generally of a coarse quality , really fine vases being rare . The statuettes are , generally , much more beautiful ; and ...
... covered by rough flattish stones . These also are always found completely choked with sand ; they contain vases generally of a coarse quality , really fine vases being rare . The statuettes are , generally , much more beautiful ; and ...
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... covered by the barracan ( jerd ) , the simplest and most graceful , as it probably was the earliest , article of dress ever invented . It is of white or gray , sometimes of red wool , heavy or light , according to the season ; very like ...
... covered by the barracan ( jerd ) , the simplest and most graceful , as it probably was the earliest , article of dress ever invented . It is of white or gray , sometimes of red wool , heavy or light , according to the season ; very like ...
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