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Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 23 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the ori...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 12 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe The name by which Persia is known to the natives, is Iran, under which denomination the Mohammedan writers include the whole of the vast region south and west of the Oxus, while that of Touran is applied to the countries beyond the Oxus, the boundary, from time immemorial, of Persia and Scythiafi'...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 5 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe A country of Africa, comprising the Valley of the Nile. Between N. Lat. 24° 6' and 31° bounded, on the N by the Mediter ranean, on the E., by the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea, on the S., by Nubia, and on the W., by the Libyan desert.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of t...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 4 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe A peninsula forming the south-western extremity of Asia, lying between lat. 12° and 35° N., long.' 36° and 61° E., bounded on the N. By Syria and the Euphrates, on the E. By the Persian Gulf, on the S. By the Arabian Sea, or Indian Ocean, on the W. By the Red Sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Bo...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 22 of 30: Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe The city of Boussa is situated on an island formed by the Quorra, in lat. 10° 14' N., long. 6° 11' E. The course of the river here is from n.n.w. To sse. It is full of islands and rocks. Boussa Stands nearest the westernmost branch, the M enai, which is about twenty yards in breadth, and runs with a...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 3 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe Irby and Mangles, pp. 253, 275. Mr. Bankes paid piastres: Captains Irby and Mangles, 600 piastres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgo...

Excerpt from Italy, Vol. 1 of 3: Savoy Piedmont Genoa Milan Among our older travellers, Evelyn, Addison, and Burnet, have been consulted sometimes with advantage, but the topographical information to be extracted from them, is extremely slight and vague: they are useful chiefly as supplying a few historical illustrations, or as referring, now and then, to objects overlooked by later travellers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes ...

Excerpt from Modern Traveller, Vol. 28 of 30: Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe The government of the Incas of Peru was a species of theocracy the sovereign united in his own person the temporal and the spiritual supremacy, and the Children of the Sun were both priests and kings. But, though the most absolute despotism in its form, it was far more mild in its character, and less 0p...

Excerpt from Modern Traveller, Vol. 25 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the origina...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 24 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe No two cities within a hundred miles of each other, remarks the Traveller just cited, can di¿'er more than New York and Philadelphia. The latter has far less appearance of bustle in it, than the former, and the people one sees in its streets, are even more sedate and respectable in their looks, th...

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Excerpt from Hymns of Praise, Prayer, and Devout Meditation It may be interesting to add, that the Hymn at page 169, (published in the first editions of the Congregational Hymn Book, but afterwards omitted, ) was written with a view of furnishing words expressive of Christian faith and feeling to the music adapted to Pope's popular ode, Vital spark, which has nothing distinctively Christian about it but the title. Also, that the Hymn at page ...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 20 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe, Africa, Vol, IAfrica, that vast peninsula, the coasts of which have been circumnavigated by the ships of Europe for more than three centuries, still presents to the eye of science, as regards its interior recesses, a blank in geography, - a physical, and not less a moral problem, -a dark and bewil...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 18 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe, Spain and Portugal, Vol, 1About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 15 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe, GreeceThree centuries and a half have elapsed since, by the cession of the Morea to the Ottoman conqueror OI Constantinople, the name of Greece was blotted out from the map of Europe. It had long been reduced to a mere name. From the time that Athens fell before the arms of Sylla, (b. C. It had ce...

Excerpt from Italy, Vol. 2 of 3: Lombardy, Venice, Bologna, Florence Pavia - Lodi Piacenza - Parma - Reggio - Modena - Cre~ mona - Mantua - Bergamo - Brescia - Lago di Guarda. From Milan, four great routes lead south-west ward, southward, and eastward: that which runs through Pavia towards Turin or Genoa, that which leads through Piacenza and Parma to Bologna, the route from Lodi to Bologna by way of Cremona and Mantua and the direct route t...

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Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 13 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the GlobeTerritorial extent OF china early history OF china ecclesiastical history OF china physical geography provincial divisions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important hist...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 11 of 30: Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe This vast region has till of late been scarcely known to Europeans, except along its shores, and the inte rior is still for the most part a term incognita. The whole, however, appears to be formed by four or five ranges of mountains, proceeding from Tibet, which, running southward in parallel direct...