Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic: Or, Contributions to the Modern History of Hungary and Transylvania, Dalmatia and Croatia, Servia and Bulgaria, Volume 2F. A. Brockhaus, 1861 - 366 pages |
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... built of mud and thatched with straw , and externally very filthy , the place looked like a conglomeration of Irish cabins ; but there were evident signs of the people being all plump and having the air of being well fed , and indeed ...
... built of mud and thatched with straw , and externally very filthy , the place looked like a conglomeration of Irish cabins ; but there were evident signs of the people being all plump and having the air of being well fed , and indeed ...
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... built on the ground which is to be cultivated , in which the family does not reside , but where agricultural implements are kept , and where the cultivator can pass the night during the period of harvest . SZEGEDIN - THE CHAPTER V. FORT ...
... built on the ground which is to be cultivated , in which the family does not reside , but where agricultural implements are kept , and where the cultivator can pass the night during the period of harvest . SZEGEDIN - THE CHAPTER V. FORT ...
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... built on a marsh , the damp , noxious , pestilential air penetrates to the very marrow , so that but for prompt precaution , which confined me for a short time to my room , I was very nearly laid up with a Theiss fever , and the reader ...
... built on a marsh , the damp , noxious , pestilential air penetrates to the very marrow , so that but for prompt precaution , which confined me for a short time to my room , I was very nearly laid up with a Theiss fever , and the reader ...
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... built in a square form , with round towers at the corners , and improved by Prince Eugene . It could not stand a regular siege , but could sink any steamer attempting to pass up or down the river , and give the troops of the garrison ...
... built in a square form , with round towers at the corners , and improved by Prince Eugene . It could not stand a regular siege , but could sink any steamer attempting to pass up or down the river , and give the troops of the garrison ...
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... built , as well as the best floating - mills . These floating - mills are a pecu- liarity of the river , there being no less than three hundred of them on the Theiss ; for small water power being scarce from the flatness of the country ...
... built , as well as the best floating - mills . These floating - mills are a pecu- liarity of the river , there being no less than three hundred of them on the Theiss ; for small water power being scarce from the flatness of the country ...
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