A Gazetteer of the World: Peru-SzydlowiecA. Fullarton, 1856 |
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Sivu 216 - Cordilleras is only twelve or fifteen inches in breadth, and has the appearance, in several places, of a gallery dug, and left open to the sky. In this part of the Andes, as almost in every other, the rock is covered with a thick stratum of clay.
Sivu 306 - ... studded on their sides with towns and villages, and towards their southern extremity clothed with beautiful woods. The Tiber, stained to a deep yellow by the fertilizing soil which it has washed away from its banks after entering the Umbrian and Etruscan vales, glitters like a belt of gold along the plain, in the sunshine that irradiates with Italian clearness the sward, the scattered trees, and the shadowy hills.
Sivu 25 - Russian — a company of soldiers is kept on duty at the works, and a perfect police force, whose duties are confined to the establishment. Refractory men of every nation are discharged for irregular conduct, excepting...
Sivu 160 - ... are soon dispelled. The houses are whitewashed, and in general appearance resemble those inhabited by the lower orders in Madeira, but they are much inferior even to them. The north-east part of the town is composed of rough stone houses, covered with palm leaves. The streets are wide, and in the centre is a large public square, the middle of which is occupied by a small wooden monument said to be emblematical of royalty ! A chapel, jail, and barracks constitute the principal public buildings....
Sivu 138 - ... revolutionary Cortes of Spain, and of Portugal in 1822, that the deputies should be re-imbursed for their expenses in travelling to and from Lisbon, and receive a daily sum for their attendance. In the judicial department, trial by jury was introduced ; it was declared that the judges should not be removeable at the will of the crown ; and torture, the use of the lash, and branding with hot iron, were formally abolished. The Roman Catholic religion was declared to be the religion of the state...
Sivu 208 - In its present state Quebec may rank as a fortress of the first consequence : the citadel on the highest part of Cape Diamond presents a formidable combination of powerful works, whence a strong wall, supported by small batteries in different places, runs to the edge of the precipice, along which it is continued to the gateway leading to the Lower Town, which is defended by heavy cannon, and the approach to it, up Mountain-street, both enfiladed and flanked by many guns of large calibre; thence a...
Sivu 69 - In an expedition of this sort, which generally lasted for some weeks, the person at whose expense it was undertaken obtained several thousands of hides, each of which, when dried, was worth four times as much as a live bullock, in consequence of the expense necessarily incurred in killing the oxen, and the labour of drying the hides in the sun. This custom of hunting and slaughtering cattle having been practised fora whole century, almost exhausted the plains of unowned cattle.
Sivu 310 - ... precisely in the inverse ratio of the resistance occasioned by the population. The fewer inhabitants there are the more victims ; and one funeral is always the fore-runner of many others. % It is, therefore, probable, that we are arrived at that period of the history of this queen...
Sivu 318 - They are as perpendicular as if erected with the plumb-line ; nevertheless, in some parts they are overhung with low shrubs, which, seen from a distance, give a dark hue to the reddish rock, and an appearance of being altered by the action of the atmosphere. Baron...
Sivu 94 - THE far greater part of that division of ancient Poland, which is now comprehended in the viceregal kingdom of that name, is a level country, with scarcely an ascent or descent, except where the courses of the rivers have formed channels below the general level of the country. As these rivers, though in summer they appear small streams, are swollen by the rains of autumn, and the melting of the snow on the Carpathian mountains in the spring, they form large channels, extending on both sides to a...