A Journey Through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787: With Particular Attention to the Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, Population, Taxes, and Revenue of that Country; and Remarks in Passing Through a Part of France, Volumen3C. Dilly, 1791 - 356 páginas |
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... plain of this . For fome time I could not conceive the reafon , why , wherever I had fupped , I was conftantly attended to my lodging by a fervant with a light ; but ob- ferving upon fome occafion , that fuch at- tendance VOL . III . C ...
... plain of this . For fome time I could not conceive the reafon , why , wherever I had fupped , I was conftantly attended to my lodging by a fervant with a light ; but ob- ferving upon fome occafion , that fuch at- tendance VOL . III . C ...
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... plains , and nearly filling them with canes , they place on these , very shallow pans , un- glazed and porous , and filled with boiling Thus expofed during the night to the influence of the land breeze , a pellicle of ice is formed ...
... plains , and nearly filling them with canes , they place on these , very shallow pans , un- glazed and porous , and filled with boiling Thus expofed during the night to the influence of the land breeze , a pellicle of ice is formed ...
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... plain , either that chalk was gypfum , and has loft its vitriolic acid , or that gypfum was once chalk , and has made this acquifition . I am inclined to adopt the latter hypothefis ; and , if this be the true one , we must en- quire ...
... plain , either that chalk was gypfum , and has loft its vitriolic acid , or that gypfum was once chalk , and has made this acquifition . I am inclined to adopt the latter hypothefis ; and , if this be the true one , we must en- quire ...
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... plains are abandoned to the Efparto rush , or stipa tenaciffima of Linnæus , the quercus coc- cifera , the juniper , and a few miferable ilex . • The rock is chiefly fchiftous , often co- vered with limeftone ; and the furface is ...
... plains are abandoned to the Efparto rush , or stipa tenaciffima of Linnæus , the quercus coc- cifera , the juniper , and a few miferable ilex . • The rock is chiefly fchiftous , often co- vered with limeftone ; and the furface is ...
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... plain , bounded on the fouth by the mountains of the Sierra Nevada ; rich in its foil , but too far re- moved from habitations to admit of culti- vation , and therefore abandoned to the efparto rush . From this plain we con- tinued to ...
... plain , bounded on the fouth by the mountains of the Sierra Nevada ; rich in its foil , but too far re- moved from habitations to admit of culti- vation , and therefore abandoned to the efparto rush . From this plain we con- tinued to ...
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Página 206 - 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 206 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain : let all the inhabitants of the land tremble : for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand...
Página 207 - The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: and the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
Página 29 - Malaga, fourteen thoufand vine-prerTes, chiefly employed in making the rich wines, which, if white, from the nature of the country, is called mountain ; if red, from the colour, vino tinto, known to us by the name of tent.
Página 62 - It is adorned with a colonnade of 140 marble pillars. The royal bed-chamber has two alcoves adorned with columns, and a fountain between them in the middle of the room; adjoining are two hot baths. The great hall is about 40 feet square, and 60 in height, with eight windows and two doors, all in deep recesses. Between this and the oblong court is a gallery of 96 feet by 16.
Página 213 - St. Anthony the abbot secures his votaries from fire, and St. Anthony of Padua delivers them from water; St. Barbara is the refuge of the timid in times of thunder and of war; St.
Página 62 - The idea of the ceiling is evidently taken from stalactites or drop stones found in the roofs of natural caverns. The ornaments of the friezes are Arabesque, and perfectly accord with the Arabic inscriptions, which are here suited to the purpose for which each apartment was designed.
Página 207 - They shall run like mighty men, they shall climb the wall like men of war ; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks. Neither shall one thrust another, they shall walk every one in his path; and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
Página 262 - ... forth with plumage, and having found her mate, .begins to lay her eggs. At the end of fix .days from this period of exiftence, having anfwered the end of their creation, they both lie down and die.
Página 201 - ... enlarges, larges, till in the third ftage it occupies the whole fpace, when the tincturing juice difappears, and only eggs are to be feen, to the number of fifteen, hundred or two thoufand. It is clear to me that the grana derives no kind of nourifhment from the plant on which it is...