Excursions in the Mediterranean: Algiers and Tunis, Volume 2Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1835 Temple describes his travels to Algiers and Tunisia prior to 1834, limited only by his inability to visit areas under French military occupation. Descriptions include wadys, archeological sites, cities, towns, customs, dress, foods, animals, and peoples |
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Page 274 - Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima. And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
Page 137 - ... this limb was immediately seized by another of the monster's arms ; he then with his hands endeavoured to free himself, but these also in succession were firmly grasped by the polypus, and the poor man was shortly after found drowned, with all his limbs strongly bound together by the arms and legs of the fish ; and it is extraordinary that where this happened the water was scarcely four feet in depth.
Page 71 - ... the east, which were closed by a sort of portcullis or stone working up and down in a groove. The second story has two rooms and one entrance, closed in the same manner as the lower ones ; and above this rose either a dome or a pyramidical succession of steps, crowned by a statue or some other ornament. On the eastern face are two inscriptions, the one Punic, and the other in characters unknown to me.
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