Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1Mawman, 1820 - 393 pages |
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Page ix
... Excellent Character of the young Bey --- His great Hospitality --- Failure in our Attempt to ascend the Acrocorinthus --- Ascent of an adjoining Mountain --- Departure and Passage over the Isthmus --- Megara --- Interesting Discovery ...
... Excellent Character of the young Bey --- His great Hospitality --- Failure in our Attempt to ascend the Acrocorinthus --- Ascent of an adjoining Mountain --- Departure and Passage over the Isthmus --- Megara --- Interesting Discovery ...
Page 27
... excellent public library , be- queathed to his native city by Don Andrea Lucchese , of the family of Campo Franco . It contains about 20,000 volumes , and is rich in the best editions of the classics , topography , antiquities , and a ...
... excellent public library , be- queathed to his native city by Don Andrea Lucchese , of the family of Campo Franco . It contains about 20,000 volumes , and is rich in the best editions of the classics , topography , antiquities , and a ...
Page 40
... excellent arsenal or dock , capable of containing sixty triremes , shut in by gates which permitted only one vessel at a time to pass . We crossed the water over deep trenches no less than five times before we arrived at the interior ...
... excellent arsenal or dock , capable of containing sixty triremes , shut in by gates which permitted only one vessel at a time to pass . We crossed the water over deep trenches no less than five times before we arrived at the interior ...
Page 49
... excellent . The right arm alone is broken ; but as part of the club re- mains , with the tail of an entwined serpent , andon the pedestal appears an hemisphere , covered by a reticulated veil representing the cortina spread over the ...
... excellent . The right arm alone is broken ; but as part of the club re- mains , with the tail of an entwined serpent , andon the pedestal appears an hemisphere , covered by a reticulated veil representing the cortina spread over the ...
Page 64
... excellent historian , Polybius ( lib . ix . c . 10 ) for introducing the fine arts from Syracuse into Rome , to destroy the boasted frugality of their ancestors . These great men should rather have blamed their am- bition and spirit of ...
... excellent historian , Polybius ( lib . ix . c . 10 ) for introducing the fine arts from Syracuse into Rome , to destroy the boasted frugality of their ancestors . These great men should rather have blamed their am- bition and spirit of ...
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