Travels, Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with CutsA. Millar in the Strand, and W. Sandby in Fleet-Street., 1757 - 513 páginas |
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... formerly belonged to fo many cifterns . At these times , which indeed feldom happened , our horfes were the greatest fufferers and as they were always our first care , we gathered for them ftubble , grafs , or boughs of trees , before ...
... formerly belonged to fo many cifterns . At these times , which indeed feldom happened , our horfes were the greatest fufferers and as they were always our first care , we gathered for them ftubble , grafs , or boughs of trees , before ...
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... formerly kingdom , which , upon comparison , will correfpond with the Pro- & c . of the vincia Nova'or Numidia of the ancients . For if we bound it with the river Tusca3 , ( i . e . the Zaine ) to the east , it will then contain a part ...
... formerly kingdom , which , upon comparison , will correfpond with the Pro- & c . of the vincia Nova'or Numidia of the ancients . For if we bound it with the river Tusca3 , ( i . e . the Zaine ) to the east , it will then contain a part ...
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... formerly , for veffels of greater burthen . The fources of it , according to Abulfeda , are a great way within the Sahara , at the distance of DCCC M. and the whole course of it , contrary to most of the other rivers , lies nearly in ...
... formerly , for veffels of greater burthen . The fources of it , according to Abulfeda , are a great way within the Sahara , at the distance of DCCC M. and the whole course of it , contrary to most of the other rivers , lies nearly in ...
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... formerly a confiderable com- munity . It is of the fame figure , though more capacious than the Great Port : and , according to the liberty of expreflion in the former ages , might much better deferve the epithet of divine , than the ...
... formerly a confiderable com- munity . It is of the fame figure , though more capacious than the Great Port : and , according to the liberty of expreflion in the former ages , might much better deferve the epithet of divine , than the ...
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... formerly a portion of fome Roman fabrick . For both Mufty - gannim and Mafagran are so copiously supplied with water ; they are fo com- modiously situated with regard to the fertile and extenfive lawns that are spread far and near ...
... formerly a portion of fome Roman fabrick . For both Mufty - gannim and Mafagran are so copiously supplied with water ; they are fo com- modiously situated with regard to the fertile and extenfive lawns that are spread far and near ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adrumetum afterwards againſt alfo Algiers alſo ancient animals apud Arabs Barbary befides betwixt Carthage circumftance Cirta coaft colour confequently confiderable cubits defcribed defcription defert diſtance eaſtern Egypt Egyptians facred faid falt fame faſhion fays feafon feems feen ferved feven feveral fhould fide firſt fituation flore fmall fo called foil foliis folio fome fometimes fouthward fpecies ftill ftone fuch fufficient funt fuppofed fupra Geogr greateſt Hamath Herodotus Hift houſes ibid Ifraelites inhabitants itſelf Kabyles Kairo land leaft leagues leaſt lefs likewife meaſure Memphis miles Miliana moft moſt mountains muſt Nile notwithſtanding Numidia obferved occafion oppidum pafs perfons plains Plin Pliny prefent preferved prefumed Ptolemy pyramids quadrupeds quæ quod Red-fea Rhinocorura rifing river ruins Seedy ſeems ſeveral ſmall ſtill Strabo Sufetula taken notice thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe trees Tunis ufually uſe weftward whilft winds τὸ
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Página 408 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Página 208 - ... falling from it into the court. From the cloisters and galleries, we are conducted into large spacious chambers, of the same length with the court, but seldom or never communicating with one another. One of them frequently serves a whole family, particularly when a father indulges his married children to live with him, or when several persons join in the rent of the same house.
Página 338 - But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped...
Página 215 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Página 188 - A day or two after one of these broods was in motion, others were already hatched to march and glean after them, gnawing off the very bark and the young branches of such trees as had before escaped with the loss only of their fruit and foliage. So justly have they been compared by the prophet to a great army ; who further observes, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.
Página 167 - Shekb, who conducted us to Mount Sinai, rode upon a camel of this kind, and would frequently divert us with a token of its great abilities.
Página 229 - None of these ladies," says Shaw, " take themselves to be completely dressed, till they have tinged the hair and edges of their eyelids with the powder of lead ore. Now, as this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through the eyelids over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the Prophet (Jer.
Página 188 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Página 215 - Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made...