A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1902 - 355 pages |
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... remains for a certain period . Then it is drawn off into other casks and kept for three years or so , after which the produce of this particular vineyard goes to the English market . My host informed me that it is quite a mistake to ...
... remains for a certain period . Then it is drawn off into other casks and kept for three years or so , after which the produce of this particular vineyard goes to the English market . My host informed me that it is quite a mistake to ...
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... remains of the leaves and of the berries . From the cast obtained thus obscurely ( which we saw ) botanists were enabled to identify the tree with its leaves and fruit as a variety of lauris nobilis , whereof the berries do not ripen ...
... remains of the leaves and of the berries . From the cast obtained thus obscurely ( which we saw ) botanists were enabled to identify the tree with its leaves and fruit as a variety of lauris nobilis , whereof the berries do not ripen ...
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... remains there now I cannot say , as I made no visit to the place either on this occasion or on a former journey in the island some fourteen years ago . This is what old Felix says about it . I quote here and else- where from the most ...
... remains there now I cannot say , as I made no visit to the place either on this occasion or on a former journey in the island some fourteen years ago . This is what old Felix says about it . I quote here and else- where from the most ...
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... remains . In the interest of the archæ- ology of the island the Government ought to insist upon its being restored , or if necessary to replace it by force.1 1 Since the above passage was written , I hear that on the death of the ...
... remains . In the interest of the archæ- ology of the island the Government ought to insist upon its being restored , or if necessary to replace it by force.1 1 Since the above passage was written , I hear that on the death of the ...
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... remains and will remain unvisited by me . I regretted also not being able to examine the copper - work- ings of the ancients at Lymni with the vast pit whence i the ore was dug , the mountains of slag that LIMASOL TO ACHERITOU 127.
... remains and will remain unvisited by me . I regretted also not being able to examine the copper - work- ings of the ancients at Lymni with the vast pit whence i the ore was dug , the mountains of slag that LIMASOL TO ACHERITOU 127.
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