Travels in Lycia, Milyas, and the Cibyratis,: In Company with the Late Rev. E. T. Daniell, Том 2John van Voorst, Paternoster Row., 1847 |
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Стр. 163 - of Macri in thirty fathoms, associated with that rare and curious vegetable net, the Microdictyon umbilicatum. Below fifty fathoms no flexible sea-weeds were observed. The corallike Millepora polymorpha took their places, and ranged even as deep as one hundred fathoms. Beyond that depth we found no traces of vegetable life, unless some of the minute and microscopic infusorial bodies there living be regarded as
Стр. 5 - Mr. Daniell, like most European travellers, had commenced his journey prejudiced against the Mahometan part of the population: he concluded it with the strongest prepossessions in their favour. The disinterested attentions, frankness, and courtesy we had met with from all ranks — from pacha to peasant; the good-faith and honesty of the
Стр. 124 - The sponge of commerce is found attached to rocks in various depths between three fathoms and thirty. When alive it is of a dull bluish black above, and of a dirty white beneath. There are several qualities, possibly indicating as many distinct species. The best are taken among the Cyclades. The sponge-divers, however, are mostly people from the islands
Стр. 56 - It has been most happily and ingeniously suggested by a gentleman interesting himself with the late researches in this country, that the instrument to which the name of triquetra has been given, is in reality a grappling-iron, a hook—
Стр. 237 - , the second is very close to mute, which we find frequently in the Lycian inscriptions as a demonstrative pronoun. It is difficult to make anything of the last line, which appears to contain a great deal more than the Greek counterpart. It is to be hoped that we may
Стр. 185 - of fossils found in some parts of it, as at Mount Lebanon, and from its great thickness, extent, and uniformity of mineral character, it is not improbable that it was a formation, the deposition of which went on without interruption in the depths of a great ocean during the whole of the secondary
Стр. 5 - in favour of the Turkish character — such as it is when seen uncorrupted by the vices of the capital, and displayed in a race comparatively pure. Mr. Daniell, like most European travellers, had commenced his journey prejudiced against the Mahometan part of the population: he concluded it with the strongest prepossessions in their
Стр. 234 - son to be the paraphrase of the Iktasla of the Greek, and regards the names Uttaila and Iktasla as identical, the father and son having the same name. In the present copy there are three variations in this word: 1st, there is an imperfect letter at the beginning, which is also clearly given in M. Raoul
Стр. 241 - Fellows ("Lycia," Plate 30, No. 11), Orewella forming Orewellaua in the dative. A letter has been altered in the last word to bring it to Perekleue, which seems to be the gentile name of Perecle, a town of which we have several coins. The first found, had lost the first letter, and reading the name as