Under the Palms in Algeria and Tunis ...Hurst and Blackett, 1868 |
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... mountains . This work is in able hands , and will soon be completed , they say . Is it another château ? The Government agents compare this country to an estate on which much money has been spent , the fruits of which expenditure are ...
... mountains . This work is in able hands , and will soon be completed , they say . Is it another château ? The Government agents compare this country to an estate on which much money has been spent , the fruits of which expenditure are ...
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... mountainous , more grassy than rocky , with a superabundance of rushes and red lilies . Near the village of Hamma we came upon a novel scene — a rushing river of warm sulphureous waters , in which were bathing a group of dusky natives ...
... mountainous , more grassy than rocky , with a superabundance of rushes and red lilies . Near the village of Hamma we came upon a novel scene — a rushing river of warm sulphureous waters , in which were bathing a group of dusky natives ...
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... mountains . In course of time we traversed the monotonous plain , and began to ascend the hills . They looked blue and hazy in the distance , but do not bear near inspection , being very barren and brown ; the roads , too , are bad ...
... mountains . In course of time we traversed the monotonous plain , and began to ascend the hills . They looked blue and hazy in the distance , but do not bear near inspection , being very barren and brown ; the roads , too , are bad ...
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... mountain , we expected the forest to break upon our view in all the grandeur of its primeval monarchs , instead of which there were only a few scrubby trees , and some half - sawn planks lying about . The large roots that peeped out ...
... mountain , we expected the forest to break upon our view in all the grandeur of its primeval monarchs , instead of which there were only a few scrubby trees , and some half - sawn planks lying about . The large roots that peeped out ...
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... mountains beyond . It certainly is a frightful country , and quite re- markable for the thinness of its population . With a powerful opera - glass we could only distinguish two habitations on the whole expanse that lay thus mapped out ...
... mountains beyond . It certainly is a frightful country , and quite re- markable for the thinness of its population . With a powerful opera - glass we could only distinguish two habitations on the whole expanse that lay thus mapped out ...
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Էջ 280 - Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted: it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.