This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. Singularities of Malta--Magnificence ofMtna--Conversation between distant Ships--Anecdote of a Shark--Aspect of Corfu--Why compared to a Shield 1 --Furnished America with an Argument for Revolution Classical Names restored--Free Constitution--Gardens of Alcinoiis--Judas Iscariot--Jews ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. Singularities of Malta--Magnificence ofMtna--Conversation between distant Ships--Anecdote of a Shark--Aspect of Corfu--Why compared to a Shield 1 --Furnished America with an Argument for Revolution Classical Names restored--Free Constitution--Gardens of Alcinoiis--Judas Iscariot--Jews persecuted--Christianity first introduced--Legend of St. Spiridion--Jovian's Temple--Recent Discovery--Great Age of Trees--Society at Corfu-- Turkish Fleet in a Gale--Santa Maura--Zante--Extinct Volcano--Pitchy Wells--Earthquake--Extraordinary Hail-stones--Rupture of a Mountain --Inundation--Awful State of the Island--Sir P. Ross. On the 8th of December we again weighed and left this artificial island, which you would suppose was raised from its foundation in the bottom of the sea by human labour; where nothing on the surface bears traces of the hand of nature, but everything of the hand of art; where the harbours are excavations in the solid stone, and the country a uniform flat, slightly covered with earth, brought in baskets and shaken on the bare rock; where not a blade of grass is to be seen, but in its place an irksome sameness of whitish clay, separated into small compartments by walls of loose stone seven or eight feet thick, having here and there a starved goat or ass shut up in them as if they were in a parish pound; where the water is saved in the pits out of which the people dig the foundations of their houses; where their food is raised under the ground, and their corn is not seen on the surface of cultivated fields, but issues from subterranean cavities in sterile rocks; and where 120,000 people contrive to live on a space of land which supplies subsistence only to 326 persons in some countries of Europe who live in the usual way...
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All Editions of A Residence at Constantinople During a Period Including the Commencement, Progress and Termination of the Greek and Turkish Revolutions; Volume 1
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