The Land of Khemi: Up and Down the Middle NileW. Blackwood and sons, 1882 - 260 páginas |
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... beauty and luxuriance , as at the village of Fidimin , where they overflow their dams in cascades — a scenic feature un- known in any other part of Egypt . Where these dams exist there are often little lakes , embowered in palm - groves ...
... beauty and luxuriance , as at the village of Fidimin , where they overflow their dams in cascades — a scenic feature un- known in any other part of Egypt . Where these dams exist there are often little lakes , embowered in palm - groves ...
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... beauty of landscape is concerned , over every other part of the country . Strabo was evi- dently much struck with the exceptional fer- tility and beauty of the Fayoum . " The Arsinoite Nome , " he says in his account of the Nomes of ...
... beauty of landscape is concerned , over every other part of the country . Strabo was evi- dently much struck with the exceptional fer- tility and beauty of the Fayoum . " The Arsinoite Nome , " he says in his account of the Nomes of ...
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Up and Down the Middle Nile Laurence Oliphant. ductiveness . Twenty years ago its beauty was even greater than it is now . The gar- dens that had made it celebrated throughout Europe had latterly gradually been allowed to run waste ...
Up and Down the Middle Nile Laurence Oliphant. ductiveness . Twenty years ago its beauty was even greater than it is now . The gar- dens that had made it celebrated throughout Europe had latterly gradually been allowed to run waste ...
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... beauty of the sunsets I have seen from this spot . The extraordinary clearness of the atmosphere brought out with the utmost distinctness the most distant outline . In the far east one could see the forms of the desert- ranges beyond ...
... beauty of the sunsets I have seen from this spot . The extraordinary clearness of the atmosphere brought out with the utmost distinctness the most distant outline . In the far east one could see the forms of the desert- ranges beyond ...
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... beauty , of architectural magnificence , and was invest- ed with a character of political and religious importance , unrivalled in the world , which it retained for nearly 2000 years . It was evi- dently selected , from its central ...
... beauty , of architectural magnificence , and was invest- ed with a character of political and religious importance , unrivalled in the world , which it retained for nearly 2000 years . It was evi- dently selected , from its central ...
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