A universal gazetteer; or, Geographical dictionary of the worldLongman and Company [and others], 1835 - 500 sivua |
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A Universal Gazetteer: Or, Geographical Dictionary of the World George Landmann Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2018 |
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Sivu 335 - ... with a single blow. The moment he falls, the women seize the body, and dress it for the feast. They besmear their children with the blood, .in order to kindle in their bosoms a hatred of their enemies, which is never extinguished, and all join in feeding upon the flesh with amazing greediness and exultation.
Sivu 23 - Pike of Teneriffe, the highest land in the ancient hemisphere. The Andes may literally be said to hide their heads in the clouds ; the storms often roll, and the thunder bursts below their summits, which, though exposed to the rays of the sun in the centre of the torrid zone, are covered with everlasting snows b.
Sivu 158 - The temperature of the air is so mild and equable, that the Spaniards give it the preference to that of the southern provinces in their native country. The fertility of the soil corresponds with the benignity of the climate, and is wonderfully accommodated to European productions. The most valuable of these, corn, wine, and oil, abound in Chili, as if they had been native to the country.
Sivu 274 - ... and .horrible. The wild rocks raised their lofty summits till they were lost in the clouds, and the valleys lay covered with everlasting snow. Not a tree was to be seen, nor a shrub even big enough to make a toothpick. The only vegetation we met with was a coarse strong-bladed grass growing in tufts, wild burnet, and a plant like moss, which sprung from the rocks.
Sivu 114 - ... so thinly scattered, that fires, which often happen, do not, sometimes, meet with the obstruction of a brick house through a whole street.
Sivu 317 - ... continue through life to do. To this may be ascribed that high degree of perfection conspicuous in many of the Indian manufactures ; and though veneration for the practices of their ancestors may check the spirit of invention, yet, by adhering to these, they acquire such an expertness and delicacy of hand, that Europeans, with all the advantages of superior science, and the aid of more complete instruments, have...
Sivu 218 - It had once a monastery, built in 11(13, and part of the priory now forms the parish church. This place is famous for the tenure of its manor ; namely, that whatever married couple will go to the priory, and swear they have not repented of their marriage, within a year and a day after it took place, shall receive a flitch of bacon.
Sivu 181 - ':>•! ; and again in the following year. The new part of the town, raised by Frederic V., is extremely beautiful. It consists of an octagon containing four uniform and elegant buildings of hewn stone, and of four broad streets leading to it, in opposite directions. In the middle of the area stands an equestrian statue of Fred.