Universal Geography: Or, A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe ...J. Laval, 1829 |
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Página 429 - When a volume of water contains both of these salts, the muriate of soda is the first to crystallize; and the carbonate of soda is then deposited in a separate layer. Sometimes the two crystallizations seem to choose separate localities in insulated parts of the same lake.* This curious valley is only inhabited by Greek monks. Their four convents are at once their fortresses and their prisons. They subsist on a small quantity of leguminous seeds. The vegetation in these valleys has a wild and dreary...
Página 275 - A singularly absurd custom takes place in this country in certain forms of political homage shown to a white elephant, a preternatural animal kept for the purpose, superbly lodged near the royal palace, sumptuously dressed and fed, provided with functionaries like a second sovereign, held next in rank to the king, and superior to the queen, and made to receive presents and other tokens of respect from foreign ambassadors.
Página 427 - On the very banks the slime is mixed with much sand, which it loses in proportion as it is carried farther from the river, so that at a certain distance it consists almost entirely of pure argil.
Página 459 - Islands of the Blessed ; and without doubt they appear delightful in the eyes of the traveller who has, during many painful weeks, suffered the privations and fatigue of the desert. But it is well known that they were generally regarded in a less favourable aspect by the Greeks and Romans, who...
Página 268 - Having collected around him one hundred picked men, he defeated the Peguan detachments in small skirmishes. Improving in experience, and acquiring confidence in his own strength, he attracted more numerous followers; and in the autumn of 1753, suddenly advanced, and obtained possession of Ava. Defeating the king of Pegu, in several subsequent engagements, he invaded his territories, and in three months took his capital, which he gave up to indiscriminate plunder and carnage. Having sustained some...
Página 116 - This depth it retains all the way to the sea, where, however, the settling of sand by the neutralization of the current, from the meeting of the tide with the stream of the river, produces bars and shallows which prevent the entrance of large vessels. The accessions which the Ganges receives in the spring by the melting of the mountain snow are not considerable.
Página 429 - Their banks and their waters are covered with crystallizations, both of muriate of soda, or sea salt, and of natron, or carbonate of soda. When a volume of water contains both of these salts, the muriate of soda is the first to crystallize ; and the carbonate of soda is then deposited in a separate layer. Sometimes the two crystallizations seem to choose separate localities in insulated parts of the same lake.|| This curious valley is only inhabited by Greek monks. Their four convents are at once...
Página 494 - The sovereignty of it is divided between two Beys, one of whom resides at Derne, a town surrounded with gardens, and watered by refreshing rivulets : his subjects may amount to 30,000 tents or families. The other lives at Bengazi, a town of 10,000 houses, with a tolerable harbour, on a shore abounding with fish, and in a fertile territory, from which much wool is exported.
Página 344 - At this period it is fit to be used as a spice, consequently this is the clove harvest. But to ripen sufficiently for the purposes of propagation, it requires three weeks longer ; in which period it swells to an extraordinary size, loses much of its spicy quality, and contains a hard nucleus like the seed of the bay. It is now called
Página 435 - Nymphaea or water-lily, which on the disappearance of the inundation covers all the canals and pools with its broad round leaves ; among which the flowers in the form of cups of bright white or azure blue, rest with inimitable grace on the surface of the water.