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共 53 段- Innumerable changes such as these have been effected by man
- The valleys which radiate in all directions from the great c
- From an historical point of view a description of Europe sho
- Next to the fisheries, the preparation of sea salt constitut
- Greece is a small country, but the variety of its climate is
- Another lake basin lies to the south of the Zygos, between t
- The limestone rocks of the interior of the Peloponnesus abou
- Cythera of Laconia, a far larger island than either of those
- Ithaca of “divine Ulysses,” the modern Theaki, is separated
- The proximity and parallelism of the coasts of two continent
- Lemnos, or Limni, is the largest island of Thracia, and at t
- If the statements of Pliny and Strabo may be relied upon, th
- The Greeks are morally inferior to the Turkish peasantry, bu
- In many districts the conversion has been nominal only, and
- Even in our own days the Bosnian Mussulmans possess far more
- This rapid conversion of the Bulgarians into Slavs is one of
- The Servian, Albanian, and Bulgarian peasants actually culti
- The Transylvanian Alps lie within the territory of the Ruman
- This state of affairs led to the most frightful demoralisati
- Servia, by despoiling the mountains of great forests, has go
- The protecting barrier of the Alps and the sea which bounds
- A similar volcanic zone extends along the northern slope of
- The Brenta, which rises in the beautiful Sugana valley of th
- This German influence upon manners and language has been mos
- The physiognomy of the large towns of Emilia, beyond the Po,
- In the meantime Genoa is expanding in all directions. Its fa
- The Etruscans, or Tyrrhenians, were the ancestors of the Tus
- The main rampart of the Apennines runs parallel to the coast
- There can be no doubt that our engineers would be able to re
- Irrespective of the insalubrity of the environs, there is an
- It is quite proper that this region of Tartarus should have
- For the present Naples is almost exclusively an agricultural
- The famous old cities of Calabria, such as Metapontum and He
- Those portions of Sicily which are clothed with trees or shr
- Southern Sicily is poor in natural ports, and formerly, alon
- Sardinia is nearly as large as Sicily, but has only a fourth
- Scale 1 : 420,800.]
- The executive is intrusted to the King, but no law or act of
- St. Florent, only six miles from Bastia, but on the western
- The Sierra de Guadarrama and its western continuation, the S
- Valladolid, the Belad Walid of the Moors, at one time the ca
- The frequent intercourse between Andalusia and the Berber co
- We pass several forts, cross the ramparts of the Cortadura,
- IBIZA (IVIZA), the largest island of the Pityuses, is hardly
- The Arab city of Calatayud, on the river Jalon, is commercia
- But the Basques have their faults. Anxious to retain their a
- Along the coast to the west of Santander, as far as Gijon, w
- Portuguese is very much like Castilian as far as root-words
- The irregular range of hills which forms the back-bone of th
- In Upper Alemtejo there are but few towns, and these would b
- Shumna (Shumla) 50,000
- [123] In 1874 there were 10,929 vessels (including 138 steam
- Tuscany, 239