Round the World in 1870: An Account of a Brief Tour Made Through India, China, Japan, California, and South AmericaH. S. King & Company, 1872 - 408 من الصفحات |
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... island has a pervading yellow look the soil seems a monotony of yellow sand- stone , dotted here and there with a yellow house , or with a few prickly - pear trees - the only vegetation visible . We should have to go a few miles towards ...
... island has a pervading yellow look the soil seems a monotony of yellow sand- stone , dotted here and there with a yellow house , or with a few prickly - pear trees - the only vegetation visible . We should have to go a few miles towards ...
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... island of Jebel Tsuga , evidently of volcanic formation . It con- sists of a mountain , apparently about 3,000 ft . in height , sloping up from the sea in an alternation of rocky ridges OVERLAND . 13 and deep ravines . In the hollow 12 ...
... island of Jebel Tsuga , evidently of volcanic formation . It con- sists of a mountain , apparently about 3,000 ft . in height , sloping up from the sea in an alternation of rocky ridges OVERLAND . 13 and deep ravines . In the hollow 12 ...
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... island of Perim , surmounted by its white lighthouse , and leave the Red Sea behind us . On Perim floats the Union Jack : i.e. whenever there is a breeze in this hot and stagnant atmosphere ; but the island had a narrow escape of being ...
... island of Perim , surmounted by its white lighthouse , and leave the Red Sea behind us . On Perim floats the Union Jack : i.e. whenever there is a breeze in this hot and stagnant atmosphere ; but the island had a narrow escape of being ...
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... Island — a flat mud - bank covered with jungle , said to be a perfect tiger- preserve , and bearing a lighthouse near its northern end . With a favourable tide we run fast up the ninety miles of narrow channels , broad and shifting mud ...
... Island — a flat mud - bank covered with jungle , said to be a perfect tiger- preserve , and bearing a lighthouse near its northern end . With a favourable tide we run fast up the ninety miles of narrow channels , broad and shifting mud ...
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... islands on its green and well - tilled surface . Beyond the hills we catch a glimpse of the plain near Saharunpore , part of the great plain of the Ganges and its tributaries , which extends from here uninterruptedly for more than 1,000 ...
... islands on its green and well - tilled surface . Beyond the hills we catch a glimpse of the plain near Saharunpore , part of the great plain of the Ganges and its tributaries , which extends from here uninterruptedly for more than 1,000 ...
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Banda Oriental bank beautiful broad Buenos Ayres buildings Calcutta Callao Canton Cape Pillar Cawnpore China Chinese coast colour coolies Cordova course distance English estancia European feet flat foot foreign garden gauchos gharry green half handsome Hankow harbour height hills Himalayas Hongkong horses houses hundred island Japan Japanese kind Kobé land leave look Lucknow mid-day miles Monte Video morning mountains Mussoorie native nearly neighbouring night Ningpo Osaca palkees Pampas pass Penang picturesque plain port Punta Arenas quarter railway reach ride ridge rise river road rock round running San Francisco scarcely scene seems Shanghae sheep Shogun shops side Sierra sight slopes stands steamer stone Strait stream streets summit surrounded tea-houses temple Tocaido town traveller trees Uruguay valley Valparaiso vessel village voyage walk walls wind wood yards Yedo Yokohama
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الصفحة 207 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
الصفحة 13 - Stood on my feet. About me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams ; by these, Creatures that lived and moved, and walk'd or flew, Birds on the branches warbling ; all things smiled ; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
الصفحة 89 - Or other worlds they seem'd, or happy isles, Like those Hesperian gardens fam'd of old, Fortunate fields, and groves, and flowery vales, Thrice happy isles...
الصفحة 176 - O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us!
الصفحة 151 - It is said of man morally, that the whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint — that from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, there is no soundness in him.
الصفحة 275 - But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken.
الصفحة 51 - Here lies Henry Lawrence, who tried to do his duty. May the Lord have mercy on his soul.
الصفحة 231 - Access denied ; and over-head up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
الصفحة 117 - Former customers have inspired caution, — no credit given." "A small stream always flowing."