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Page 129
... stone . It is a large town , of the class of Aleppo and Damascus . Matthi Beg had raised a wooden wall all round it ; and sunk a ditch , with vast labour . We were told , that under the Wallachian Government are six and twenty towns ...
... stone . It is a large town , of the class of Aleppo and Damascus . Matthi Beg had raised a wooden wall all round it ; and sunk a ditch , with vast labour . We were told , that under the Wallachian Government are six and twenty towns ...
Page 152
... stones , from the mountain , and from caves under the ground . It is like the hard black stone of Aleppo ; but when pounded , it becomes like snow ; and in this state the women are constantly selling it in the streets . The work of ...
... stones , from the mountain , and from caves under the ground . It is like the hard black stone of Aleppo ; but when pounded , it becomes like snow ; and in this state the women are constantly selling it in the streets . The work of ...
Page 225
... stone and tiles and mortar : but , unfortunately , one half of it , from the western nave , is in ruins . It is related , that the Tartars , at a remote period , ruined it , and set fire to it ; and in that state of devastation it ...
... stone and tiles and mortar : but , unfortunately , one half of it , from the western nave , is in ruins . It is related , that the Tartars , at a remote period , ruined it , and set fire to it ; and in that state of devastation it ...
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afterwards Akhmil Arabic Archimandrite attended banquet Basil the Macedonian beautiful Beg of Moldavia Beg of Wallachia Beg sent Beg's bells Bishops blessing called calpack castle censer ceremony chair chaunt choir Christ church Clergy cloth coach Constantine Corta Cossack country Cossacks Crâl cross cupolas custom Deacons deceased door Easter Emperor entered Feast Festival gardens gate gold Gospel Grandees Greek hand handsome Heads of Convents Holy horses houses Iconostasis incense inhabitants Jews Khatman Akhmil Kiov kissed lofty Lord the Patriarch magnificent manner mass Matthi Beg Metropolitan miles Monks morning Moscow Muscovites Nicolas Oriental Translation painted palace passed Patriarch of Antioch Paul of Aleppo Persian person piastres Poles Prayer of Absolution present Priests Prince recited river robes round royal door saying SECT Silistria silver sprinkled standing stood Sunday Tabernacle Tartars thurible took town troops Turks Vasili Voivoda Wallachia walls whilst whole Zenobius ثم علي