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Page 31
When we drew near enough to see its terraced hills — lofty hills they are , some
of them in the interior rising to a point six thousand feet above the sea — and to
make out the tiny houses nestling like white and tinted shells against the green ...
When we drew near enough to see its terraced hills — lofty hills they are , some
of them in the interior rising to a point six thousand feet above the sea — and to
make out the tiny houses nestling like white and tinted shells against the green ...
Page 32
For everything was so marvellous in its beauty : the green hills , terraced almost
to the very top ; the gorges between , the little fairy city just where the hills flow
into the sea . With glasses one could make out flowering vines on many of the
walls ...
For everything was so marvellous in its beauty : the green hills , terraced almost
to the very top ; the gorges between , the little fairy city just where the hills flow
into the sea . With glasses one could make out flowering vines on many of the
walls ...
Page 36
At the end of the funicular there was still more hill to climb , and one could either
do it afoot or be carried up in a hammock . Most of us young people did it afoot ,
allowing enfeebled men of eighteen and twenty the comfort of the hammocks .
At the end of the funicular there was still more hill to climb , and one could either
do it afoot or be carried up in a hammock . Most of us young people did it afoot ,
allowing enfeebled men of eighteen and twenty the comfort of the hammocks .
Page 37
We descended that long , paved , greased hill in toboggans that are nice ,
comfortable baskets on runners . They hold two and three , according to size ,
and you get in and two men take you in hand , and away you go . You go , too . A
distance ...
We descended that long , paved , greased hill in toboggans that are nice ,
comfortable baskets on runners . They hold two and three , according to size ,
and you get in and two men take you in hand , and away you go . You go , too . A
distance ...
Page 51
The Patriarch forgot the Phænicians for a little and began to talk about Athens
and of Mars Hill from which St . Paul had preached , though he added presently
that it was quite certain St . Paul ' s grandfather had been a Phænician ; the ...
The Patriarch forgot the Phænicians for a little and began to talk about Athens
and of Mars Hill from which St . Paul had preached , though he added presently
that it was quite certain St . Paul ' s grandfather had been a Phænician ; the ...
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| Title | The Lure of the Mediterranean: The Ship Dwellers: a Story of a Happy Cruise The Lure of the Mediterranean: The Ship Dwellers: a Story of a Happy Cruise, Albert Bigelow Paine |
| Author | Albert Bigelow Paine |
| Publisher | Harper & brothers, 1911 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 393 pages |
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