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Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 6 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the GlobeEsneh 00000000000000000000000oldoooooooooooo ooooooo o. Eleithyia 000009000000000000000oootooooooboooooooooo.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 historical work. Fo...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 10 of 30: Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe Meerut, the chief town of the district of South Saharunpoor, is now one of the principal military stations in the Upper Provinces. It is situated about 39 miles N. Of Delhi, in lat. 28° 58' N long. 77° 38' E. It is thus described by Bishop Heber. Meerut is a very extensive cantonment, but less widel...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 21 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the GlobeAbout 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, preserving the original fo...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 1 of 30: Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe Were a collection of Voyages and Travels to be now published, in order to have any claim to complete ness, it could not be comprised in less than fifty or sixty quarto volumes, - the size of an Encyclopaedia, and after all, the collection would present only the crude materials of geographical knowled...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 27 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe The well -chosen name of Colombia was assumed by the provinces formerly composing the vice-royalty of New Granada and the captain-generalship of Venezuela, on their incorporation into a Federal Republic in the year 1819. The country was dis. Covered by Columbus, and thus, more than three hundred y...

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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