Transcaucasia and Ararat: Being Notes of a Vacation Tour in the Autumn of 1876Macmillan, 1877 - 420 sider |
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... 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 is no ...
... 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 is no ...
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... sort of sense of bivouacking in your rug or great - coat . That was what had to be done here in the little sofa cabins round the saloon . As regards food there was nothing to complain of . Russia is eminently a land of good cooking ...
... sort of sense of bivouacking in your rug or great - coat . That was what had to be done here in the little sofa cabins round the saloon . As regards food there was nothing to complain of . Russia is eminently a land of good cooking ...
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... sort of business till the great Polish war of the six- teenth century . Names of czars and patriarchs can be given , and a few famous battles fixed , but in the main it is an uncertain as well as dreary record of family quarrels between ...
... sort of business till the great Polish war of the six- teenth century . Names of czars and patriarchs can be given , and a few famous battles fixed , but in the main it is an uncertain as well as dreary record of family quarrels between ...
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... sort which they call Don champagne . Nowhere in European Russia , except here and in the Crimea , some of whose wines . are excellent , does the grape seem to be regularly cultivated . A dense haze filled the air as we crossed the Don ...
... sort which they call Don champagne . Nowhere in European Russia , except here and in the Crimea , some of whose wines . are excellent , does the grape seem to be regularly cultivated . A dense haze filled the air as we crossed the Don ...
Side 43
... , itself mostly bare of wood , but throwing off to the north a sort of buttress of hilly country , which sinks gradually THE CAUCASUS . 43 Road over the main chain to Tiflis The Dariel Pass: the Caucasian Gates Mount Kazbek.
... , itself mostly bare of wood , but throwing off to the north a sort of buttress of hilly country , which sinks gradually THE CAUCASUS . 43 Road over the main chain to Tiflis The Dariel Pass: the Caucasian Gates Mount Kazbek.
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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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