Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe; Accompanied with Analytical, Synoptical, and Elementary Tables, Volumen2Wells and Lilly, 1824 |
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Página 382 - is never happier than when his guests stop for some time. Nothing of the kind have I seen in any other country. In every other place the rich and powerful lavish their treasures on the caprices of luxury, or on favourites whose whole merit is to be equally corrupt with themselves. The inhabitants of
Página 543 - archway formed by the intermingling branches of the opposite trees, he passes along a serpentine labyrinth intersected at short distances by others. Not far from each other, on either side of these walks, small wicker doors are observed, on opening any of which he is surprised by the appearance of a court-yard and house,
Página 148 - The wine of St. John near Bethlehem is delicious. The wild olive trees near Jericho bear olives of a large size, and give the finest oil.§ In places subjected to irrigation, the same field, after a crop of wheat in May, produces pulse in autumn. Several of the fruit trees arc continually bearing
Página 532 - upwards of twenty millions Sterling, without reckoning the provinces and towns which depend immediately on the emperor. But these revenues should not be considered as national, being paid in kind to the different princes. The emperor, besides the gross revenue of the royal domains and his own provinces, possesses a considerable
Página 148 - The soil, consisting of a sandy earth, rises from Jaffa towards the mountains of Judea, forming four ascending terraces.* The sea-shore is lined with mastic trees, palms, and prickly pears. Higher up, the vines, the olives, and the sycamores repay the labour of the cultivator; natural groves arise, consisting of evergreen oaks, cypresses,
Página 338 - have come in,") by which a person who has a favour to ask goes to the house or tent of the man on whom it depends, and refuses to sit on his carpet, or partake of his hospitality, till he grants the required boon. This is felt as an
Página 331 - elaborate productions of human industry and refinement. He would find the towns few, and far distant from each other, and would look in vain for inns and other conveniences which a traveller would meet with in the wildest parts of Britain. Yet
Página 346 - wife manages the house, takes care of the property, does her share of the honours, and is much consulted in all her husband's measures. Women are never beaten; they have no concealment, but are said to be indifferent in their character for chastity. Both sexes spend much of their time in the house, sitting round a
Página 218 - intrigues. But the youth who is bold enough to trespass on the sanctuary of the harem finds his path encompassed with perils, battles, and death. The pastoral life of the Bedouins affords greater freedom to their women; and the desert is the general theatre of the keen passions depicted in the Arabian
Página 145 - contains nothing except calcareous mountains, where there are vast caverns, in which the Arabian shepherds live like the ancient Troglodytes. Here their she-goats come spontaneously to be milked ; and they have a huge log of wood to serve them both for light and heat. Here a modern traveller, Dr. Seetzen, in 1806, discovered the magnificent Ruins of