Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of Columbus to the Present Period, Bind 16

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E. Newbery, 1797

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Side 19 - The firft region furrounds the foot of the mountain, and conftitutes the moft fertile country in the world on all fides of it, to the extent of about fourteen or fifteen miles, where the woody region begins.
Side 81 - This beautiful city ftands near the extremity of a kind of natural amphitheatre, formed by high and rocky mountains ; but the...
Side 226 - The ruins of a very large amphitheatre yet remain, sunftructed under the emperor Gallienus ; it is of brick, as are moft of the edifices of that period, when the empire was verging to its fall, and the arts began rapidly to decline. During the irruptions of the barbarous nations, and peculiarly in thofe which the Normans repeatedly made, Bourdeaux was ravaged, burnt, and almoft entirely dellroyed.
Side 31 - Etna, is the first object that calls your attention. It is marked out by a circle of snow and ice, which extends on all sides to the distance of about eight miles. In the centre of this circle the great crater of the...
Side 62 - He has put the heads of men to the bodies of every sort of animal, and the heads of every other animal to the bodies of men. Sometimes he makes a compound of five or six animals that have no sort of resemblance in nature.
Side 226 - England, by his marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine. Edward the Black Prince brought his royal captive, John, king of France, to this city after the battle of Poitiers, in 1356, and here held his court during eleven years : his son, Richard II..
Side 200 - I did fo, and arrived irrived there at one in the afternoon. This extraordinary rock — for it is no more — rifes in the middle of the bay of Avranches. Nature has completely fortified one fide, by its craggy and almoft perpendicular defcent, which renders it impracticable for courage or addrefs, however confummate, to fcale or mount it.
Side 201 - During the long nights of winter,' continued the man, * no candle or fire was allowed him. He was not permitted to have any book. He faw no human face except the gaoler, who came once every day to prefent him, through a hole in the wicket, his little portion of bread and wine.
Side 203 - From this faftnefs, only acceffible at low tides, he continually made excurfions, and annoyed the enemy, who never dared to attack him. He coined money, laid all the adjacent country under contribution, and rendered himfelf univerfally dreaded. Defirous however to furprize the
Side 31 - It is likewise covered with a number of little conical and spherical mountains, and exhibits a wonderful variety of forms and colours, and makes *a delightful contrast with the other two regions.

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