Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time ; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography ; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Том 1Francis Lieber Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1836 |
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... coast , which is said to have been founded by Hercules . Though it boasted of being the native place of Democritus and Pro- tagoras , yet it was regarded among the ancients as notorious for stupidity . Wie- land has portrayed it as such ...
... coast , which is said to have been founded by Hercules . Though it boasted of being the native place of Democritus and Pro- tagoras , yet it was regarded among the ancients as notorious for stupidity . Wie- land has portrayed it as such ...
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... coast , 10 miles east of Alexandria . This place has become distinguished , in mod- ern times , by the naval battle , in which the English admiral Nelson annihilated the French fleet , between the first and the third of August , 1798 ...
... coast , 10 miles east of Alexandria . This place has become distinguished , in mod- ern times , by the naval battle , in which the English admiral Nelson annihilated the French fleet , between the first and the third of August , 1798 ...
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... coast rather hindered the retreat of the Neapolitans than the advances of the foe , who pro- ceeded without opposition , both by the roads along the coast and over the moun- tains , with columns composed of light troops , and by this ...
... coast rather hindered the retreat of the Neapolitans than the advances of the foe , who pro- ceeded without opposition , both by the roads along the coast and over the moun- tains , with columns composed of light troops , and by this ...
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... coast of Africa . It was that of the Axumitæ , situated upon the Red sea , and occupying part of the Abyssinian prov- ince of Tigré . The capital , Axum , still remains , though in a state of decay . Its port , Adulis , was the channel ...
... coast of Africa . It was that of the Axumitæ , situated upon the Red sea , and occupying part of the Abyssinian prov- ince of Tigré . The capital , Axum , still remains , though in a state of decay . Its port , Adulis , was the channel ...
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... coast has a wild and barren appearance . At the entrance of the harbor is situated an island , Roqueta or Grifo , which forms a western entrance of 700 or 800 feet broad , and an eastern , a mile or a mile and a half broad , and from 24 ...
... coast has a wild and barren appearance . At the entrance of the harbor is situated an island , Roqueta or Grifo , which forms a western entrance of 700 or 800 feet broad , and an eastern , a mile or a mile and a half broad , and from 24 ...
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