An Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries from the Time of Columbus to the Present Period, Volume 15Bradford, 1803 |
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Page 42 - Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 58 - ... and I found myself surrounded with the colds of the most rigorous winter, amid darkness and caves of iron. In one of these, which ran a considerable way...
Page 308 - Jennie states that the external fat is soft, like that of a breast of mutton, and, when put into a bladder, is as fine as marrow. In this it differs from all the other species of deer, of which the external fat is hard.
Page 54 - I have no doubt he was assassinated. The night was extremely dark, and it was almost an impossibility that a ball from the fort could enter his head, at the distance and on the spot where he stood. I saw the king's body, and am certain that the wound on his temple was made by a pistol bullet.
Page 56 - Thfs operation is performed every day at noon, and is one of the most tremendous and awful it is possible to conceive. We arrived at the mouth of the great mine, which is nearly half an English mile in circumference, in time to be present at 'it. Soon after twelve...
Page 155 - Under the cathedral ehurch is a vaulted apartment, supported on pillars ; it is near sixty paces long, and half as many broad. The light and air are constantly admitted into it by three windows, though it is several feet beneath the level of the ground. Here are five large oak coffors, rather than coffins, each containing a corpse.
Page 271 - They, however, found and pronounced me to be a perfect human being, except in the color of my hair and eyes. The former, they said, was like the stained hair of a buffalo's tail; and the latter, being light, were like those of a gull. The whiteness of my skin, also, was in their opinion no ornament, as they said it resembled meat which had been sodden in water till all the blood was extracted.
Page 308 - The young ones in particular," says he, "are so simple, that I remember to have seen an Indian paddle his canoe up to one of them, and take it by the poll, without experiencing the least opposition, the poor harmless animal seeming at the same time as contented alongside the canoe as if swimming by the side of its dam, and looking up in our faces with the same fearless innocence that a...
Page 102 - Prussia to the late empress. Her present majesty pre.fers this palace to any of the others; and when there, she is in retreat, as she is in town at the Hermitage. The grand duke of Russia, and heir apparent to the crown, is just twenty years of age. It is, very hard to know what qualities or talents he really possesses, since under this despotic and jealous government, there is scarcely any material power vested in the second, more than the hundredth person in the empire. He has not hitherto exhibited...
Page 155 - English countess, who dying here at Bremen, ordered her body to be placed in this vault uninterred, in the apprehension that her relations would cause it to be brought over to her native country. They say it has lain here 250 years.