 | sir William Smith - 1850 - 858 pages
...runs parallel to the coast, to which it sinks down in a succession of terraces, clothed with verdure, intersected by mountain streams running through ravines filled with the richest vegetation, exposed to the cool sea-breezes from the N., and sheltered by the mass of the mountain from the sands... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1860 - 556 pages
...runs parallel to the coast, to which it sinks down in a succession of terraces, clothed with verdure, intersected by mountain streams running through ravines filled with the richest vegetation; well watered by frequent rains, exposed to the cool sea breeze from the north, and sheltered by the... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1858 - 946 pages
...runs parallel to the coast, to which it sinks down in a succession of terraces, clothed with verdure, intersected by mountain streams running through ravines filled with the richest vegetation, exposed to the cool sea-breezes from the N., and sheltered liy the mass of the mountain from the sands... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1868 - 300 pages
...runs parallel to the coast, to which it sinks down in a succession of terraces, clothed with verdure, intersected by mountain streams, running through ravines filled with the richest vegetation, well watered by frequent rains, exposed to the cool sea-breezes from the north, and sheltered by the... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1871 - 526 pages
...runs parallel to the coast, to which it sinks down in a succession of terraces, clothed with verdure, intersected by mountain streams running through ravines filled with the richest vegetation, well watered by frequent rains, exposed to the cool sea-breezes from the north and sheltered by the... | |
 | William Latham Bevan - 1875 - 740 pages
...Magnus in the E., where it touched Marmarica to Ara Philenörnm at the bottom of the Greater Syrtis in the W. The portion of this territory which was actually...vegetation. Rain is abundant ; and the climate is tempered Ъу the sea breezes from the N., and by ranges of mountains, which shut out the heat of the Sahara... | |
 | William Latham Bevan - 1875 - 740 pages
...of this region were highly favourable. It lies directly opposite Pebjonnesus at a distance of 'JOO miles. Its centre is occupied by a moderately elevated...throughout clothed with verdure and intersected by mountain «(reams running through ravines filled with the richest vegetation. Rain is abundant ; and the climate... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 504 pages
...runs parallel to the coast, to which it sinks down in a succession of terraces, clothed with verdure, intersected by mountain streams running through ravines filled with the richest vegetation ; well watered by frequent rains, exposed to the cool sea breeze from the north, and sheltered by the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 576 pages
...runs parallel to the coast, to which it sinks down in a succession of terraces, clothed with verdure, intersected by mountain streams running through ravines filled with the richest vegetation ; well watered by frequent rains, exposed to the cool sea-breeze from the north, and sheltered by the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 578 pages
...runs parallel to the coast, to which it sinks down in a succession of terraces, clothed with verdure, intersected by mountain streams running through ravines filled with the richest vegetation ; well watered by frequent rains, exposed to the cool sea-breeze from the north, and sheltered by the... | |
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is occupied by a moderately elevated table-land, whose edge runs parallel to the coast, to which it sinks down in a succession of terraces, clothed with verdure, intersected by mountain streams running through ravines filled with the richest vegetation... 
