New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals and Translations, Volume 4Sir R. Phillips and Company, 1820 - Voyages and travels |
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... port of Constantinople ! less that of sordid commerce which calculates the value of every breeze , and the quarter it blows from . Here pleasure enlivens the scene , and the gilded bark glides along with its proud posses- sor , who ...
... port of Constantinople ! less that of sordid commerce which calculates the value of every breeze , and the quarter it blows from . Here pleasure enlivens the scene , and the gilded bark glides along with its proud posses- sor , who ...
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... port where the Argonauts changed the stone anchor , brought by them from Mount Dyndimus . Two miles beyond this , on the same coast , is the fort of Rhebas , and as opposite to it , on the other side , that of Kela . At the first sight ...
... port where the Argonauts changed the stone anchor , brought by them from Mount Dyndimus . Two miles beyond this , on the same coast , is the fort of Rhebas , and as opposite to it , on the other side , that of Kela . At the first sight ...
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... ports frequented in preference by the Athenians , were those of Panticopea and Theodosia , because they were to them free ports . They were also the rendezvous of the vessels expedited by the Greek colonies on the coast of Asia , from ...
... ports frequented in preference by the Athenians , were those of Panticopea and Theodosia , because they were to them free ports . They were also the rendezvous of the vessels expedited by the Greek colonies on the coast of Asia , from ...
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... port to the Ottomans , as an immense depôt for ship - building ; wood , pitch , tar , hemp , & c . being found in abundance in the neighbourhood . Beyond Sinope is Trebisonde , the capital of an obscure em- pire , but part of the states ...
... port to the Ottomans , as an immense depôt for ship - building ; wood , pitch , tar , hemp , & c . being found in abundance in the neighbourhood . Beyond Sinope is Trebisonde , the capital of an obscure em- pire , but part of the states ...
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... port , is erected a number of houses occupied by the Greeks , which prove the conquerors took possession of the residence of the conquered , compelling the latter to seek an asylum elsewhere . The city has now only twenty gates , of ...
... port , is erected a number of houses occupied by the Greeks , which prove the conquerors took possession of the residence of the conquered , compelling the latter to seek an asylum elsewhere . The city has now only twenty gates , of ...
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