Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... Produce in Wine , Oil , and Currants , & c .--- Revenue --- Inha- bitants --- Venetian Government --- Improvements by the British --- Religion --- Compendious Ancient and Modern History of the Isle --- Antiquities --- Tomb of Cicero ...
... Produce in Wine , Oil , and Currants , & c .--- Revenue --- Inha- bitants --- Venetian Government --- Improvements by the British --- Religion --- Compendious Ancient and Modern History of the Isle --- Antiquities --- Tomb of Cicero ...
Page x
... Produce of its Soil CHAPTER XII . Departure from Livadia to Delphi --- View of Parnassus --- Ancient Triodos --- Parnassus the Ci- tadel of Phocis --- Defile called Schiste --- Arrival at Arracova --- Description of it , Industry of its ...
... Produce of its Soil CHAPTER XII . Departure from Livadia to Delphi --- View of Parnassus --- Ancient Triodos --- Parnassus the Ci- tadel of Phocis --- Defile called Schiste --- Arrival at Arracova --- Description of it , Industry of its ...
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... produce ; but , however abundant this may have been , however advantageous in commercial exchange , it will never account for the almost unexampled prosperity of a state whose whole territory scarcely exceeded in size the smallest ...
... produce ; but , however abundant this may have been , however advantageous in commercial exchange , it will never account for the almost unexampled prosperity of a state whose whole territory scarcely exceeded in size the smallest ...
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... produce of the Agri- gentine territory . In the beginning of June , we bid adieu to our hospitable Domini- cans , and proceeded towards the interior of the island , with the in- tention of visiting Castro Giovanni , anciently called ...
... produce of the Agri- gentine territory . In the beginning of June , we bid adieu to our hospitable Domini- cans , and proceeded towards the interior of the island , with the in- tention of visiting Castro Giovanni , anciently called ...
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... producing sulphur , coal , marcasite , copper , gold in small quantities , and rock - salt in great abundance , of a beautiful violet colour . Pliny mentions the peculiar tint of this salt at Centorbi , in the neighbourhood of Enna ...
... producing sulphur , coal , marcasite , copper , gold in small quantities , and rock - salt in great abundance , of a beautiful violet colour . Pliny mentions the peculiar tint of this salt at Centorbi , in the neighbourhood of Enna ...
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