The Present State of Sicily and Malta, Extracted from Mr. Brydone, Mr. Swinburne, and Other Modern TravellersG. Kearsley, 1788 - 262 עמודים |
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adorned afhes againſt Agrigentum Alcamo almoſt ancient city appearance beautiful brazen bull Calabria Carthaginians Catania celebrated celebrated city chriftian church coaft compofed confiderable corn courſe crater delightful deſtroyed diſtance dreadful earthquakes eaſtern edifice elegant eruptions expence extenfive faid falt fame feems fent fertile feven feveral fhore fhould fide firſt fituated fize fmall fnow foil folid fome fometimes foon ftands ftill ftone fubject fuch fuffered fufficient fummit furface furrounded Girgenti grand mafter greateſt gulph harbour himſelf houſe immenfe increaſe inhabitants iſland itſelf knights lava lefs Leontini likewife magnificent Malta Meffina miles moft moſt Mount Etna mountain muſt occafioned Ortygia Palermo perfons Phalaris pleaſure prefent prefervation raiſed remains rifing river rock ruins Saracens ſcene ſeveral Sicilian Sicily Siculiana ſmall ſome ſpot ſtill ſtriking Syracufe taſte temple thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand torrent town trees uſe vaft Val di Noto whofe whoſe
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עמוד 62 - ... degree of perfection. We looked down into the craters of thefe, and attempted, but in vain, to number them. ' The circumference of this zone, or great circle on ¿Etna, is not lefs than 70 or 80 miles. It is every where fucceeded by the vineyards, orchards, and corn-fields that compofe the Regions Culta, or the fertile region.
עמוד 229 - ... than had hitherto been made choice of; and kept up a continual fire both upon the ravelin above mentioned, and a cavalier that covered the fort, and was one of its principal defences. " This cavalier foon became the only defence which could prevent the befiegers from coming up to the very foot of the walls.
עמוד 60 - Strombolo, and Volcano, with their smoking summits, appear under your feet; and you look down on the whole of Sicily as on a map; and can trace every river through all its windings, from its source to its mouth. The view is absolutely boundless on every side; nor is there any one object within the circle of vision to interrupt it, so that the sight is every where lost in the immensity...
עמוד 63 - The present crater of this immense volcano is a circle of about three miles and a half in circumference. It goes shelving down on each side, and forms a regular hollow like a vast amphitheatre. From many places of this space issue volumes of sulphureous smoke, which, being much heavier than the circumambient...
עמוד 51 - These three are as different, both in climate and productions, as the three zones of the earth ; and, perhaps, with equal propriety, might have been styled the Torrid, the Temperate, and the Frigid Zone.
עמוד 236 - ... fignal given, advanced to the breach. The garrifon was prepared to receive them. The breach was lined with feveral ranks of foldiers, having the knights interfperfed among them at certain diftances. The Turks attempted often to break through this determined band, and to overpower them with their numbers But their numbers ferved only to augment the lofs which they fuftained. Every mot from the fort did execution.
עמוד 231 - Turks applied themfelres with unremitting diligence to heighten the ravelin till it overtopt the wall of the fort ; and after this, the garrifon could no longer appear upon the parapet with fafety. Many were killed by the enemy's artillery. Several breaches were made in different parts of the wall, and the hearts of the braveft knights began to fail within them. They apprehended, that ere long the Tuxkifh general would " in defence of the Order : that the preferva...
עמוד 228 - ... as the fortification which the Turks had raifed upon the counterfcarp overtopped a ravelin which lay near it, in which the befieged could no longer appear with fafety. They refolved, however, to defend this ravelin as long as poflible, whatever it fhould coil them.
עמוד 63 - ... the side opposite to that where we were placed. The crater is so hot that it is very dangerous, if not impossible to go down into it ; besides, the smoke is very incommodious, and, in many places, the surface is so soft, there have been instances of people sinking into it, and paying for their temerity with their lives.
עמוד 230 - ... of another, looked into it, and faw the chinitian foldiers lying on the ground afleep. Of this they gave immediate information to the troops ; who, advancing as quickly and filently as...