Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, Том 2Colburn & Company, 1851 |
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... remains . of a Roman well , which in its fall has blocked up the principal spring . It produces fifty or sixty gallons a minute ; possesses a tempera- ture of 124 ° , is alkaline in flavour , and covers the surrounding plants and rocks ...
... remains . of a Roman well , which in its fall has blocked up the principal spring . It produces fifty or sixty gallons a minute ; possesses a tempera- ture of 124 ° , is alkaline in flavour , and covers the surrounding plants and rocks ...
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... remains of the very fine temple of Samneh the pylon half entire , the propylon only partly destroyed , and two or three fragments of marble sphinxes scattered about . Seven columns remain standing ; others are lying imperfect on the ...
... remains of the very fine temple of Samneh the pylon half entire , the propylon only partly destroyed , and two or three fragments of marble sphinxes scattered about . Seven columns remain standing ; others are lying imperfect on the ...
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... hill with a flat summit , rising perpendicularly from the plain on one side - with its upright face of bare rock facing the river . The antiquities comprise the remains of These in- a small temple at the foot , built AND THE NILES . 59.
... hill with a flat summit , rising perpendicularly from the plain on one side - with its upright face of bare rock facing the river . The antiquities comprise the remains of These in- a small temple at the foot , built AND THE NILES . 59.
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... remains of an extensive building of red burnt brick , probably Coptic . While looking for partridges , I came suddenly upon four gazelles in a small valley . I loaded one barrel with ball , lay down , and as one of the beautiful ...
... remains of an extensive building of red burnt brick , probably Coptic . While looking for partridges , I came suddenly upon four gazelles in a small valley . I loaded one barrel with ball , lay down , and as one of the beautiful ...
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... remains of what might either have been her palace or her bath , we soon came in sight of what pro- bably is her monument . We beheld in one place in the vast plain , about twenty - six pyramids . Of these none were quite perfect , and ...
... remains of what might either have been her palace or her bath , we soon came in sight of what pro- bably is her monument . We beheld in one place in the vast plain , about twenty - six pyramids . Of these none were quite perfect , and ...
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Aboohamed Admiral Fisher's agreeable appearance Arab arrived ARTHUR CONWAY Assuan banks bazaar beautiful Bedouins beheld Berber Bey Hassib blue boat brought Cairo camels caravan CO.'S NEW PUBLICATIONS coffee COLBURN AND CO.'S covered covey Daireh desert diabeheeh distance divan Dongola doum palms dragoman dromedaries durra Egypt Egyptian encampment England English European extremely feet four friends gazelles GEORGE MELLY Government Governor hareem hills hippopotamus hundred immense interesting Janissaries journey Khartoum Kordofan Korosko ladies Latiffe Pacha looking Marian Withers Mehemet Mehemet Ali miles morning mountains native night Nubian numerous o'clock palace partridges party passed piastres picturesque pipes plain proceeded pyramids resembling river road rocks round saddle sand scarcely scene seen servants Sheik side sight stones tents thought thousand tion town travelling trees Turkish twenty village vols Wady Halfa White Nile wind yards young
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Стр. 110 - Architecture in these regions being in an extremely primitive condition, the arrangement of the streets is just what might be expected from the aspect of the houses. There are no spacious thoroughfares ; here and there appears something like a square, or space — but the perspective generally is by no means such as would satisfy the humblest European judgment in thu art of building.
Стр. 33 - ... being handsome; but, Sir, if you please to recollect, you before hinted something about a hump or two, one eye, and a few more graces of that kind. Now, without being very nice, I own I should rather choose a wife of mine to have the usual number of limbs, and a limited quantity of back: and though one eye may be very agreeable, yet as the prejudice has always run in favour of two, I would not wish to affect a singularity in that article.
Стр. 73 - ... they were all eaten by a wolf (hyena), and scattered over the desert, while he was away leading some merchants over the sandy plains. When, after a march of ten days over stony hills, and arid plains of deep sand, we came suddenly upon the broad river, winding through the rich green of the durracovered banks, we could exclaim with the Psalmist, " He maketh me to lie down in green pastures ; He leadeth me beside still waters;" and as a Bedouin in advance of us called his servant, who was walking...