Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries: From the Time of Columbus to the Present Period ...E. Newbery, 1797 |
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... Mountains and iflands , once celebrated for their fertility , chang- ed into barren wastes , and barren wastes into fertile fields and rich vineyards . In fhort , nature feems to have formed this coaft in her most capricious mood , and ...
... Mountains and iflands , once celebrated for their fertility , chang- ed into barren wastes , and barren wastes into fertile fields and rich vineyards . In fhort , nature feems to have formed this coaft in her most capricious mood , and ...
Side 3
... mountain , that rifes fuddenly from the fea . It is about ten miles in circumference ; and its crater is abfolute- ly inacceffible . In clear weather it is discovera- ble at the distance of twenty - five leagues , fo that its vifible ...
... mountain , that rifes fuddenly from the fea . It is about ten miles in circumference ; and its crater is abfolute- ly inacceffible . In clear weather it is discovera- ble at the distance of twenty - five leagues , fo that its vifible ...
Side 6
... mountains on either fide of the straights . In their perambulations round the city and its vicinity , their fenfes were recreated by the per- fumes of various aromatic plants and fhrubs . Ma- ny beautiful flowers grow wild on the ...
... mountains on either fide of the straights . In their perambulations round the city and its vicinity , their fenfes were recreated by the per- fumes of various aromatic plants and fhrubs . Ma- ny beautiful flowers grow wild on the ...
Side 8
... . They left Meffina early on the morning of the 22d , with fervants , guards , mules , and arms . The Sea - coaft of Sicily is rich , and the fides of fome of the the mountains are highly cultivated , and prefent the most 8 BRYDONE'S TOUR .
... . They left Meffina early on the morning of the 22d , with fervants , guards , mules , and arms . The Sea - coaft of Sicily is rich , and the fides of fome of the the mountains are highly cultivated , and prefent the most 8 BRYDONE'S TOUR .
Side 9
... mountains are highly cultivated , and prefent the most agreeable afpects . Corn , wine , oil , and filk , are produced in ... mountain of Neptune , celebrated for a gulph , or crater , on its 1ummit , from whence , at particular times ...
... mountains are highly cultivated , and prefent the most agreeable afpects . Corn , wine , oil , and filk , are produced in ... mountain of Neptune , celebrated for a gulph , or crater , on its 1ummit , from whence , at particular times ...
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Adour Agrigentum almoft ancient appears Barcelona beautiful Bretagne built caftle caſtle cathedral Catherine of Medicis celebrated Charles VII church compofed confiderable conftructed diftance drefs Duke elegant Etna faid fame feems feen feet feven feveral fide filk fince fingular fituation fize fmall fome foon fovereign fpot fquare France ftands ftate ftatue ftill ftone ftreets ftyle fuch fummit fuppofed fupported furrounded Gothic greateſt Grenada Henry Henry II hiftory hill himſelf houfes houſe hundred ifland immenfe impoffible infcription inhabitants interfect itſelf king laft lava leagues lefs likewife Loire Louis Louis XI magnificent marble miles moft moſt Mount Etna mountain oppofite paffage paffed palace Palermo perfons pleaſure prefent preferved prince profpect province purpoſe raiſed refidence rifes river road rock Roman round ruins ſcene Sicily ſmall Spain ſpot thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand tower town travellers uſed vaft vifited walls whofe whole