Transcaucasia and Ararat: Being Notes of a Vacation Tour in the Autumn of 1876Macmillan, 1877 - 420 sider |
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Side viii
... cone 258 Ascent of the great cone 264 Cossack and Kurd refuse to ascend further .. 266 The great snow basin : upper slope of rotten rock 273 The Summit 277 View from the summit 279 Descent to Sardarbulakh 285 Reach Aralykh : our Cossack ...
... cone 258 Ascent of the great cone 264 Cossack and Kurd refuse to ascend further .. 266 The great snow basin : upper slope of rotten rock 273 The Summit 277 View from the summit 279 Descent to Sardarbulakh 285 Reach Aralykh : our Cossack ...
Side 94
... cone rising 17,000 feet above the sea and 14,400 feet above the plain at its own base , is a phenomenon the like of which hardly exists in the world . Whether beautiful or the reverse , however , the country 94 TRANSCAUCASIA AND ARARAT .
... cone rising 17,000 feet above the sea and 14,400 feet above the plain at its own base , is a phenomenon the like of which hardly exists in the world . Whether beautiful or the reverse , however , the country 94 TRANSCAUCASIA AND ARARAT .
Side 177
... cone rises behind in incomparable majesty , may have looked down upon any day for these three thou- sand years . As noon approaches , the babbling rills of life that flow hither and thither in the bazaar are stilled ; the heat has sent ...
... cone rises behind in incomparable majesty , may have looked down upon any day for these three thou- sand years . As noon approaches , the babbling rills of life that flow hither and thither in the bazaar are stilled ; the heat has sent ...
Side 193
... cone , which in the autumn is free from snow . In the plain , and only a few miles off to the south - west , a low rocky eminence is seen , close to the famous monas- tery of Khorvirab , where St. Gregory the Illuminator , the apostle ...
... cone , which in the autumn is free from snow . In the plain , and only a few miles off to the south - west , a low rocky eminence is seen , close to the famous monas- tery of Khorvirab , where St. Gregory the Illuminator , the apostle ...
Side 197
... shift and break and form again round the solemn snowy cone till another evening descended , and it glittered clear and cold beneath the stars . CHAPTER VI . ARARAT . NONE of the native peoples P 2 THROUGH ARMENIA TO ARARAT . 197.
... shift and break and form again round the solemn snowy cone till another evening descended , and it glittered clear and cold beneath the stars . CHAPTER VI . ARARAT . NONE of the native peoples P 2 THROUGH ARMENIA TO ARARAT . 197.
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Transcaucasia and Ararat: Being Notes of a Vacation Tour in the Autumn of 1876 James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1877 |
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Alps ancient Aralykh Aras Araxes Armenian Asia Batum beautiful Black Sea called Caspian Caucasian Caucasus century chain Christian Church Circassian cliffs coast cone Constantinople Cossacks course crater Crown 8vo Czar Daghestan Dariel descending east Eastern Edition Elbruz empire English Erivan Erzerum Etchmiadzin Europe European Euxine farther fcap feet Georgian German glen Greek height hills Imeritia inhabitants Kazbek Kurds land less Little Ararat live look mass miles Mingrelians Mohammedan moun mountain nearly neighbours never night north-west pass patriarch peak perhaps Persian plain population Poti pretty race railway ridge rising river road rock Roman round runs Russian Sardarbulakh seemed side slopes snow sometimes sort south-east spot steamer steep steppe Strabo stream summit tarantass Tatars Tiflis town trachyte Transcaucasia traveller tribes Turkey Turkish Turkmans Turks upper valley village Vladikavkaz volcanic walls Western wood
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