Gleanings, Pictorial and Antiquarian, on the Overland RouteHall, Virtue & Company, 1851 - 256 pages Account of overland journey from England to Gibraltar and Malta. |
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Gleanings, pictorial and antiquarian, on the overland route, by the author ... William Henry Bartlett Affichage du livre entier - 1851 |
Gleanings, Pictorial and Antiquarian, on the Overland Route Gleanings,William Henry Bartlett Affichage du livre entier - 1851 |
Gleanings, pictorial and antiquarian, on the overland route, by the author ... William Henry Bartlett Affichage du livre entier - 1851 |
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Admiral APOSTLE'S FOUNTAIN Auberge Auberge de Castile beautifully BIRD'S-EYE VIEW black silk mantilla built CARTEIA carved CATALAN BAY CEUTA CEUTA 24 chapel costume COTTONERA LINES Cousen crowd curious deep Ditto DRAGUT edifice Elmo English Engravings on Steel erected EUROPA POINT everywhere FLORIANA FORT MANOEL FORT RICASOLI FORT ST FORT TIGNE French Creek frescoes G. F. Storm GEORGE'S HALL 27 GIBRALTAR Gozo Grand Harbour Grand Master GRAVE OF ABERCROMBIE handsome Hospitallers interest J. C. Bentley 194 Jerusalem knights L'Isle Adam LANDING-PLACE 17 Malta Malta and Gibraltar Maltese ladies Mangiare MAP AND BIRD'S-EYE MARTIN'S CAVE MEDITERRANEAN BATTERY 21 memorials morocco gilt NORTH-WEST 22 numerous palace picturesque POINT AND CEUTA POINT DRAGUT seen ascending Senglea Siege SIGNAL STATION 19 sketch stone Strada Reale Strada Santa STREET IN RHODES STREET IN VALETTA STREETS OF STAIRS super-royal 8vo tongue of land TOPOGRAPHY UPPER BARACCA VIEW OF VALETTA volume W. H. BARTLETT Willmore 190 WOODCUTS
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Page 1 - ADIEU, the joys of La Valette; Adieu, sirocco, sun, and sweat; Adieu, thou palace, rarely entered ; Adieu, ye mansions, where I've ventured ; Adieu, ye cursed streets of stairs — How surely he who mounts them swears!
Page 8 - Stately hotels, exeellent in appearanee and well kept, display their rival signs on all sides to the eyes of the traveller. Life in Malta is easy, inexpensive, and earelessly elegant. A large number of young and rieh English offieers indemnify themselves there for their expatriation by all the enjoyments of luxury, and keep up the jovial eustoms whieh the knights, for their part, imported before them. A multitnde of travellers arriving from every quarter of the globe, and obliged to sojourn in the...