 ... and there for maize, melon, gourd, and cucumber, but otherwise the groves of plum, apricot, and peach appeared almost inaccessible, from the dense lower growth of fig-trees and pomegranates, themselves again half hid beneath clustering vines. Overlooking...  Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft - Page 52by Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft - 1847Full view - About this book
 | William Ainsworth - Asia, Western - 1844 - 286 pages
...clustering IV.] FENIK ANCIENT PIKENICA. 1S5 vines. Overlooking this scene of vegetative splendour, and upon the side of the hill, were the ruins of a castellated building, the battlemented wall and irregularly dispersed square towers of which still remain. This building covered a considerable... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1849 - 498 pages
...themselves, again, half hid beneath clustering vines. " Overlooking this scene of vegetative splendour, and upon the side of the hill, were the ruins of a castellated...remain. This building covered a considerable space. Traces of outworks and of buildings connected with it were also quite evident, stretching downwards... | |
 | Xenophon - 1854 - 560 pages
...themselves again half hid beneath clustering vines. Overlooking this scene of vegetative splendour, and upon the side of the hill, were the ruins of a castellated building, the battlemented wall and irregularly dispersed towers of which still remain. This building covered a considerable space,... | |
 | Xenophon - 1858 - 544 pages
...the hill, wcro the ruins of a castellated building, thebattlemented wall and irregularly dispersed towers of which still remain. This building covered a considerable space, being six hundred yards in depth, by eleven hundred in length. Traces of out-works, and of buildings connected... | |
 | Xenophon - 1860 - 572 pages
...themselves again half hid beneath clustering vines. Overlooking this scene of vegetative splendor, and upon the side of the hill, were the ruins of a castellated building, the battlemented wall and irregularly dispersed towers of which still remain. -This building covered a considerable... | |
 | Babylon - 1860 - 398 pages
...themselves again half hid beneath clustering vines. Overlooking this scene of vegetative splendour, and upon the side of the hill, were the ruins of a castellated building, the battlemented wall and irregularly dispersed square towers of which still remain." The next place of interest on... | |
 | Xenophon - Iran - 1877 - 548 pages
...again half hid beneath clustering vines. Overlooking this scene of vegetative splendor, and upon tho side of the hill, were the ruins of a castellated building, the baUlemeoted wall, and irregularly dispersed towers of which still remain. This building covered a considerable... | |
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