An Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries from the Time of Columbus to the Present Period, Bind 16Bradford, 1803 |
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... travellers , and therefore pre- senting a wild field for novelty and observation . After waiting some days for a favourable wind , at last they embarked on the 15th of May , and * Mr . Brydone gives a very unfavourable account of the ...
... travellers , and therefore pre- senting a wild field for novelty and observation . After waiting some days for a favourable wind , at last they embarked on the 15th of May , and * Mr . Brydone gives a very unfavourable account of the ...
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... travellers hire a couple of them from town to town ; and in this manner they are not only safe from danger but imposition . Mr. Brydone says , except the harbour of Mes- sina , there is little worth notice in the place . Some of the ...
... travellers hire a couple of them from town to town ; and in this manner they are not only safe from danger but imposition . Mr. Brydone says , except the harbour of Mes- sina , there is little worth notice in the place . Some of the ...
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... travelling it . An aqueduct , which supplies the last - mentioned place with water , was their guide for five miles . At the end of this , the ascent became much more rapid , till they arrived at the beginning of the second region of ...
... travelling it . An aqueduct , which supplies the last - mentioned place with water , was their guide for five miles . At the end of this , the ascent became much more rapid , till they arrived at the beginning of the second region of ...
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... travellers , and his own manners were more attractive than all the curiosities he possessed . The same afternoon they went in company with Recupero , to visit a splendid building at some distance from the town , which appeared more like ...
... travellers , and his own manners were more attractive than all the curiosities he possessed . The same afternoon they went in company with Recupero , to visit a splendid building at some distance from the town , which appeared more like ...
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William Fordyce Mavor. Our travellers next went to examine where the lava had scaled the city walls . The walls are near sixty feet high , and of great strength , or they could not have resisted the torrent , which , accumulating at the ...
William Fordyce Mavor. Our travellers next went to examine where the lava had scaled the city walls . The walls are near sixty feet high , and of great strength , or they could not have resisted the torrent , which , accumulating at the ...
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