Transcaucasia and Ararat: Being Notes of a Vacation Tour in the Autumn of 1876Macmillan, 1877 - 420 sider |
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... live pretty much upon them and bread . If I were asked to characterise the most conspicuous externals of Russia in three words , they should be " sheepskins , cucumbers , emeralds . " We meet or overtake plenty of vessels , sometimes ...
... live pretty much upon them and bread . If I were asked to characterise the most conspicuous externals of Russia in three words , they should be " sheepskins , cucumbers , emeralds . " We meet or overtake plenty of vessels , sometimes ...
Side 17
... live on good enough terms with them , and do not seem to complain of the Christian government , which has been wise enough not to meddle with their faith . Since the fall of their Khanate three hundred years ago , they have rarely given ...
... live on good enough terms with them , and do not seem to complain of the Christian government , which has been wise enough not to meddle with their faith . Since the fall of their Khanate three hundred years ago , they have rarely given ...
Side 25
... breeds into his private concerns . People venture boldly , live expensively , enjoy and indulge the moment , confident that things will some- how come right in the long run . No nations THE VOLGA AND THE SOUTHERN STEPPE . 25.
... breeds into his private concerns . People venture boldly , live expensively , enjoy and indulge the moment , confident that things will some- how come right in the long run . No nations THE VOLGA AND THE SOUTHERN STEPPE . 25.
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... live ; however , the sight of haycocks right and left of the line , and less frequently of stubble fields whence the corn has just been lifted , proves well enough that inhabitants there must be some- where . Though every ten or fifteen ...
... live ; however , the sight of haycocks right and left of the line , and less frequently of stubble fields whence the corn has just been lifted , proves well enough that inhabitants there must be some- where . Though every ten or fifteen ...
Side 60
... live in a state of perpetual feud with one another , village against village , and family against family . There is no political organization . Each man , like the Cyclopes in Homer , rules over his wife and chil- dren , and cares ...
... live in a state of perpetual feud with one another , village against village , and family against family . There is no political organization . Each man , like the Cyclopes in Homer , rules over his wife and chil- dren , and cares ...
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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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