The Modern Traveller: Hanway's Travels through Russia, Persia, &c. (concl.). Pontoppidan's Natural history of Norway. Algarotti's Travels into Persia. Bell's Travels to different parts of Asia. Norden's Travels through Egypt and Nubia. Kalm's Travels in North America. Hasselquist's Travels through the LevantT. Lowndes, no. 77, in Fleet-Street, 1776 |
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עמוד 173 - I connot help being of opinion, that it is fufficient to contain all the nations in Europe, where they might enjoy a more comfortable life than many of them do at prefent. For my part...
עמוד 39 - Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honour; where there is more sense than wit ; more good nature than good humour ; and more wealth than pleasure : where a man would chuse rather to travel than to live ; shall find more things to observe than desire ; and more persons to esteem than to love.
עמוד 272 - ... had ever been, they found in one place in the woods, and again on a large plain, great pillars of stone, leaning upon each other. The...
עמוד 268 - ... as they can. If they meet with a perfon who is afraid of them, he is in great diftrefs. I am acquainted with feveral people, who have on fuch an occafion run fo hard as to be quite out of breath, in endeavouring to efcape the fnake, which moved with the fwiftnefs of an arrow after them. If a perfon thus purfued can mufter up courage enough to oppofe the fnake with...
עמוד 159 - ... that concern the Emperor. The turrets are fo contrived, as to be in fight of one another ; and, by fignals, they can convey intelligence of any remarkable event. By this means the court is informed in the fpeedieft manner imaginable, of whatever difturbance may happen in the moft remote provinces of the empire.
עמוד 139 - On long marches, all their provifions confift of cheefe, or rather dried curd, made up into little balls, which they drink when pounded and mixed with water. If this kind 'of food fails, they have always many fpare horfes, which they kill and eat. They broil or roaft the...
עמוד 271 - It is to be obferved, that the nations, which now inhabit North America, could not cultivate the land in this manner, becaufe they never made ufe of...
עמוד 162 - Chinefe was far more antient than that of the holy fcriptures ; but obferved, that it ended back in fabulous accounts, concerning which nothing certain could be determined. As to Noah's flood, he affirmed, that, at or near the fame time, there was a great deluge in China, which deftroyed all the inhabitants of the plains...
עמוד 271 - Montreal, and went as much due weft as they could, on account of the lakes, rivers, and mountains, which fell in their way. As they came far into the country, beyond many nations, they fometimes met with large tracb of land free from wood, but covered with a kind of very tall grafs, for the fpace of fome days journey.
עמוד 104 - The eyes of this creature are very large, and of a blue color, and look like a couple of bright pewter plates." Egede gives us the pointed head, the power of spouting water like a whale, the broad anterior flappers or paddles, the bulky trunk, and the pointed tail. Pontoppidan adds the enormous eyes, the mane, the dorsal protuberances, the sudden narrowing...