Transcaucasia and Ararat: Being Notes of a Vacation Tour in the Autumn of 1876Macmillan, 1877 - 420 sider |
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... fact a sort of Eastern ethnological museum . This may have been true twenty years ago ; it is not true now . The fair is picturesque , and in a certain way , which I will men- tion presently , more striking than one expects , but there ...
... fact a sort of Eastern ethnological museum . This may have been true twenty years ago ; it is not true now . The fair is picturesque , and in a certain way , which I will men- tion presently , more striking than one expects , but there ...
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... fact I do not believe that a knowledge of foreign languages is any more common than in England , or as common as it is in Germany . The difference rather is that those who do speak French or German speak it more fluently than we . And ...
... fact I do not believe that a knowledge of foreign languages is any more common than in England , or as common as it is in Germany . The difference rather is that those who do speak French or German speak it more fluently than we . And ...
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... fact that its water is almost quite fresh , more appropriately called a marsh . It is even shallower now than it was then , and grows shallower every year , not only by the action of the Don pouring in mud , but also by that of THE ...
... fact that its water is almost quite fresh , more appropriately called a marsh . It is even shallower now than it was then , and grows shallower every year , not only by the action of the Don pouring in mud , but also by that of THE ...
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... fact , that in the Caucasus there is so much less of human life and history than in the Alps . Instead of groups of cheerful châlets , sur- rounded by herds of cattle browsing on the lofty pastures up to the very edge of the glacier ...
... fact , that in the Caucasus there is so much less of human life and history than in the Alps . Instead of groups of cheerful châlets , sur- rounded by herds of cattle browsing on the lofty pastures up to the very edge of the glacier ...
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... fact that , so far as trade was concerned , even the stormy Euxine provided an easier route to Scythia . But a good deal must be ascribed to the peculiarly difficult and impracticable character of the chain itself , which not only ...
... fact that , so far as trade was concerned , even the stormy Euxine provided an easier route to Scythia . But a good deal must be ascribed to the peculiarly difficult and impracticable character of the chain itself , which not only ...
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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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