Sketches and Adventures in Madeira, Portugal, and the Andalusias of SpainHarper & brothers, 1856 - 445 страници |
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... picturesque and novel cos , tume ; all meet and delight the eye just at the precise QUIET HAPPINESS . 25 moment when to have landed on CHAPTER II Season of Madeira and England contrasted-Agreeabilities of Island-Its Resources-City of ...
... picturesque and novel cos , tume ; all meet and delight the eye just at the precise QUIET HAPPINESS . 25 moment when to have landed on CHAPTER II Season of Madeira and England contrasted-Agreeabilities of Island-Its Resources-City of ...
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... picturesque or at- tractive in it ; and it no more covers the head than a fashionable lady's bonnet . The remainder of the dress is ordinary , no less in appearance than quality . Indeed many of the poorer class have no more covering ...
... picturesque or at- tractive in it ; and it no more covers the head than a fashionable lady's bonnet . The remainder of the dress is ordinary , no less in appearance than quality . Indeed many of the poorer class have no more covering ...
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... , and all the foreigners . Flanked on one side by the castle , and , on the op- posite by the cathedral , with a row of fine trees enclosing it on every side , it affords a picturesque and THE PROMENADE . 37 shaded walk . Here the ladies.
... , and all the foreigners . Flanked on one side by the castle , and , on the op- posite by the cathedral , with a row of fine trees enclosing it on every side , it affords a picturesque and THE PROMENADE . 37 shaded walk . Here the ladies.
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... picturesque , and to get up an appetite for dinner . We dined seldom before seven o'clock of the evening , when the business of the day was over , and there was naught to disturb our devotions . West of the town they were constructing ...
... picturesque , and to get up an appetite for dinner . We dined seldom before seven o'clock of the evening , when the business of the day was over , and there was naught to disturb our devotions . West of the town they were constructing ...
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... picturesque till you reach Cape Garajao , which , with its projection upon the ocean , forms the eastern horn of Funchal Bay , and from the top of which you have a view of a long range of cliffs , rising on either side , one above the ...
... picturesque till you reach Cape Garajao , which , with its projection upon the ocean , forms the eastern horn of Funchal Bay , and from the top of which you have a view of a long range of cliffs , rising on either side , one above the ...
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