Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania: 1 (1820)Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... Remains of Antiquity in Tycha - Athenian Wall of Circumvallation - Wall of Dionysius - Fortress of Hexapylon -Marcellus weeping over Syracuse -- Reflections thereon - Battle with a Snake - Labdalus -Ancient Masonry -- Species called ...
... Remains of Antiquity in Tycha - Athenian Wall of Circumvallation - Wall of Dionysius - Fortress of Hexapylon -Marcellus weeping over Syracuse -- Reflections thereon - Battle with a Snake - Labdalus -Ancient Masonry -- Species called ...
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... Remains --- Molossian Dogs --- Climate .. CHAPTER XVII . Departure for an Excursion into Thesprotia --- Scenery --- Greek Chapels , & c .--- Ruins of an ancient City --- Theatre and Walls --- Conjectures on its Site --- Village of ...
... Remains --- Molossian Dogs --- Climate .. CHAPTER XVII . Departure for an Excursion into Thesprotia --- Scenery --- Greek Chapels , & c .--- Ruins of an ancient City --- Theatre and Walls --- Conjectures on its Site --- Village of ...
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... remains of those magnificent cities , which abounded in this once flourishing island , and still attest , even in their fall , that unrivalled taste and grandeur of sentiment , which distin- guished the Grecian colonies no less than ...
... remains of those magnificent cities , which abounded in this once flourishing island , and still attest , even in their fall , that unrivalled taste and grandeur of sentiment , which distin- guished the Grecian colonies no less than ...
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... remains of a long building raised on pilasters , and which , from its situation near the sea - gate , did very probably form part of the ancient forum of this great commercial city . But of all the edifices which Agrigentum , or perhaps ...
... remains of a long building raised on pilasters , and which , from its situation near the sea - gate , did very probably form part of the ancient forum of this great commercial city . But of all the edifices which Agrigentum , or perhaps ...
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... remains of the temple of Esculapius , which will be thought to have been properly or improperly situated within the precincts of an extensive cemetery , according to the reader's opinion of that art which its Deity was supposed to ...
... remains of the temple of Esculapius , which will be thought to have been properly or improperly situated within the precincts of an extensive cemetery , according to the reader's opinion of that art which its Deity was supposed to ...
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