Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania: 1 (1820)Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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Page ix
... Plain of Mantinéa - Arrival at Tripolizza- Greek Dragomau - Unfortunate Dilemma with the Pasha - Cephalonian Doctor - Visit to Ruins of Tegea - Friendly Conduct of Nourri Bey --- Extract from Mr. Cockerell's Tour in the Morea --- His ...
... Plain of Mantinéa - Arrival at Tripolizza- Greek Dragomau - Unfortunate Dilemma with the Pasha - Cephalonian Doctor - Visit to Ruins of Tegea - Friendly Conduct of Nourri Bey --- Extract from Mr. Cockerell's Tour in the Morea --- His ...
Page x
... Plain of Topolias --- Inconveniences of travelling in Greece --- De- parture of General Davies --- Author's Recovery --- Pays a Visit to the Archon Logotheti --- An Albanian Soldier undergoes the Punishment of Bastinado --- Account of ...
... Plain of Topolias --- Inconveniences of travelling in Greece --- De- parture of General Davies --- Author's Recovery --- Pays a Visit to the Archon Logotheti --- An Albanian Soldier undergoes the Punishment of Bastinado --- Account of ...
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... plain he never could have read the account of this very temple in Diod . Sic . nor have looked with any attention into Pausanias , who is full of examples against his theory : it is rather odd too , that he had not seen the Marquis de ...
... plain he never could have read the account of this very temple in Diod . Sic . nor have looked with any attention into Pausanias , who is full of examples against his theory : it is rather odd too , that he had not seen the Marquis de ...
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... plain of turf between them , called La Meta , or the Goal : ' Nature herself seems to have marked out the spot which tradition thus assigns to the exercise of those noble Agrigentine steeds , which so often bore away the prize of the ...
... plain of turf between them , called La Meta , or the Goal : ' Nature herself seems to have marked out the spot which tradition thus assigns to the exercise of those noble Agrigentine steeds , which so often bore away the prize of the ...
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... plain the traveller will observe with surprise , enor- mous fragments of those celebrated walls which formed a most dis- tinguishing feature in the prospect of Agrigentum † ; so immense were these ramparts , that they appear to have ...
... plain the traveller will observe with surprise , enor- mous fragments of those celebrated walls which formed a most dis- tinguishing feature in the prospect of Agrigentum † ; so immense were these ramparts , that they appear to have ...
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