Memoirs Relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, and Other Countries of the East, Volume 1Robert Walpole Consists of unpublished papers of Dr. Sibthorp, Dr. Hunt, Dr. Hume and other travellers, with descriptions of antiquities and notes and excursus by the editor. |
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Page 224 - Isthmus, now called fProblakas, where Xerxes is said to have cut a canal for his fleet of galleys. This is about a mile and a quarter long, and twenty-five yards across; a measurement not very different from that given by £ Herodotus * This is the sea polypus, which we often observe beaten by the Greeks to make it tender. Forskal says, ' carnem bene tusam edunt," and an older authority makes mention of this practice IToXwiroof roWerai ToAAaxjf wpos TO TTEWCOV yivivQai, Suidas, — E.
Page 71 - The length of a male specimen, somewhat less than nine feet in expanse, was three feet three inches from the tip of the beak to the extremity of the tail ; and its height, when perching, with the neck partly withdrawn, two feet eight inches.
Page 479 - Magnificentiae vero in Déos vel Jovis Olympii templum Athenis, unum in terris inchoatum pro magnitudine Dei, potest testis esse.
Page 342 - This room is four feet longer than the one below ; in the latter, you see only seven stones, and a half of one, on each side of them ; but in that above, the nine are entire, the two halves resting on the wall at each end. The breadth is equal with that of the room below. The covering of this, as of the other, is of beautiful granite; but it is composed of eight stones instead of nine, the number in the room below.
Page 43 - s dwelling without stopping to visit it, would have been deemed an insult, as the reception of strangers was a privilege highly valued. While a stranger was under their protection, his safety was their first object ; an insult to such a person would have aroused in their breasts the strongest incitements to revenge ; his danger would have induced them to sacrifice even their lives to his preservation, as his suffering any injury would have been an indelible disgrace to the family where it happened....
Page 469 - The breadth of the Ceramicus, according to Mr. Hawkins, being thus confined on one side by the walls of the city, and on the other by the buildings immediately under the acropolis, could not have exceeded one half of its length. It was divided into the outer and inner Ceramicus. The former was without the walls, and contained the tombs of those who had fallen in battle, and were buried at the public expense.
Page 341 - I determined to make another effort to enter, which was accompanied with more success than the first. I was enabled to creep in, though with much difficulty, not only on account of the lowness of the passage, but likewise the quantity of dust which I raised. When I had advanced a little way, I discovered what I supposed to be the end of the passage. My surprise was great, when I reached it, to find to the right a straight entrance into a long, broad, but low place, which...
Page 46 - Helena in her own apartments. She was in fact the lady of the castle, and chief of the district round it, which was her own by inheritance from her father. She was a young widow, and still retained much of her beaiity ; her manners were pleasing and dignified.
Page 187 - Jewg, 2,000 Greeks, 600 Latins, 300 Armenians, 100 Jacobites or Syrians, and two or three families of Copts and Maronites. Your Lordship will be surprized at the number of the Jews, and I could not gain any satisfactory account how they existed in a place where they do not cultivate the ground, and where they cannot have much commerce, as it requires a guard to go in safety even half a mile from the walls of the town, and you cannot travel to any distance without a very considerable escort ; had...
Page 264 - ... dos noir , les pennes des ailes et de la queue mi-parties de noir et de blanc ; en été , il se répand sur la tête , le cou , le dessous du corps , et même sur le dos, des ondes transversales...