 | 1866 - 408 sider
...most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons, without skill, and almost without labour. But when the passages of the Straits were thrown open...commodities were collected in the forests of Germany or Scythia ; whatever was manufactured by the skill of Europe or Asia; the corn of Egypt and the gems... | |
 | John Yeats - 1872 - 490 sider
...most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons without skill and almost without labour ; but when the passages of the straits were thrown open...commodities were collected in the forests of Germany or Scythia, as far as the sources of the Tanais and the Borysthenes ; whatever was manufactured by... | |
 | 1872 - 450 sider
...most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons without skill, and almost without labour. But when the passages of the Straits were thrown open...artificial riches of the North and South of the Euxine and the Mediterranean. Whatever rude commodities were cultivated in the forests of Germany and Scythia,... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1878 - 216 sider
...most exquisite fish that are taken in their stated seasons without skill and almost with out) labour. But when the passages of the straits were thrown open...artificial riches of the north and south, of the Euxine and the Mediterranean. Whatever rude commodities were collected in the forests of Germany and Scythia,... | |
 | Robert Gossip - 1878 - 328 sider
...most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons without skill and almost without labour. But when the passages of the Straits were thrown open...they alternately admitted the natural and artificial c riches of the north and south, of the Euxine (Black Sea), and of the Mediterranean. Whatever rude... | |
 | William Jackson Brodribb - 1879 - 298 sider
...most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons, without skill, and almost without labour. But when the passages of the straits were thrown open...were collected in the forests of Germany and Scythia, and far as the sources of the Tanais and the Borysthenes ; whatsoever was manufactured by the skill... | |
 | Robert Phillimore - 1879 - 864 sider
...passages could always shut " them against a naval enemy, and open them to the fleets of " commerce "(A). " When the passages of the Straits were thrown open..." riches of the North and South of the Euxine and the " Mediterranean " (f). The rights of the Ottoman Porte over the waters which constitute the passage... | |
 | Telemachus Thomas Timayenis - 1880 - 500 sider
...important passages could always shut them against a naval enemy and open them to the fleets of commerce. Whatever rude commodities were collected in the forests...manufactured by the skill of Europe or Asia ; the corn of Egypt, and the gems and spices of farthest India, were brought by the varying winds into *... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 sider
...most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons, without skill, and almost without labour. But when the passages of the straits were thrown open...and south, of the Euxine and of the Mediterranean. e. The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth, united in a single spot, was sufficient to justify... | |
 | 1882 - 376 sider
...most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons without skill and almost without labor. But when the passages of the Straits were thrown open...artificial riches of the north and south, of the Euxine and the Mediterranean. Whatever rude commodities were collected in the forests of Germany and Scythia,... | |
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Turkish oppression, still exhibit a rich prospect of vineyards, of gardens, and of plentiful harvests; and the Propontis has ever been renowned for an inexhaustible store of the most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons, without skill,... 
