Letters from the Old World, Nide 1Harper & Brothers, 1840 After a few years of studying the available literature on the cultures and continents she wanted to visit, Sarah Rogers Haight traveled through almost all of Europe and parts of Africa and Asia. She spent years in the cosmopolitan centers of foreign countries, mingling with the intelligentsia of each place. This two-volume description of her various journeys appeared anonymously in 1840.--Provided by The Library Company of Philadelphia. |
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... Granite Quar . ries . Who was that Ethiopian ? -A Page from History . - Mysterious Antiquities . - Last Sight of Syene • LETTER XVII . • 177 Splendour of Thebes . - The Theban Plain . - A Survey of the Ground.- Extraordinary Ruin ...
... Granite Quar . ries . Who was that Ethiopian ? -A Page from History . - Mysterious Antiquities . - Last Sight of Syene • LETTER XVII . • 177 Splendour of Thebes . - The Theban Plain . - A Survey of the Ground.- Extraordinary Ruin ...
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... granites of Egypt . It Columns and capitals , cornices and friezes , are all min . gled with viler materials in one heterogeneous mass . grieved me to see thousands of splendid marble and granite antique columns used for the under ...
... granites of Egypt . It Columns and capitals , cornices and friezes , are all min . gled with viler materials in one heterogeneous mass . grieved me to see thousands of splendid marble and granite antique columns used for the under ...
Sivu 80
... granite and por- phyry , her palaces and her baths of their rich marbles and alabasters ; yet leaving a plentiful field for the gleanings of the Venetian , the Genoese , and the Turk . For more than a thousand years was this immense ...
... granite and por- phyry , her palaces and her baths of their rich marbles and alabasters ; yet leaving a plentiful field for the gleanings of the Venetian , the Genoese , and the Turk . For more than a thousand years was this immense ...
Sivu 81
Sarah Rogers Haight. TEMPLE OF SERAPIS . 81 whose possession the marbles and granites of the Ptolemies shall next pass ... granite columns , the immense size of which is indicated by that stupendous monument , called by many Pompey's ...
Sarah Rogers Haight. TEMPLE OF SERAPIS . 81 whose possession the marbles and granites of the Ptolemies shall next pass ... granite columns , the immense size of which is indicated by that stupendous monument , called by many Pompey's ...
Sivu 82
... granite , all but one of which were shattered into fragments , and scattering its beautiful capitals and architraves of Parian marble , the pious father of the church erected on its site a new temple " in honour of the Christian martyrs ...
... granite , all but one of which were shattered into fragments , and scattering its beautiful capitals and architraves of Parian marble , the pious father of the church erected on its site a new temple " in honour of the Christian martyrs ...
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Alexandria amusement ancient appearance Arab arch arrived ascend backshee beautiful Bedouins boat Bosphorus camel canal capital captain caravan Carnac cavern coffee columns Constantinople consul court curious desert divan East Egypt Egyptian endeavour eyes feet gale gates gentlemen Giovanni Grand Cairo granite Greek ground hand hareem head hill holy hundred immense land Land of Goshen LETTER light Luxor magnificent matter Memnonium Memphis ment miles monuments morning mountain mummies Mustafa nations never night Nile Nubia obelisks Odessa once pacha palace passed perhaps Pharaoh piastres plain port present priests propylon Ptolemy Pyramids quarantine river rock ruins Russia sacred Sakkarah Saracenic scene sculptured seat seen shore side Smyrna splendid spot Stamboul stone sultan Syene temple Thebaid Thebes thousand tion tomb travellers Turk Turkish turn Typhon valley vessel walls whole wind