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... surrounded by sloping ground and mounds of earth , on which grow quantities of palm trees . The whole place , especially towards evening , has a strangely deserted and lone appearance , showing how completely one of the ancient world's ...
... surrounded by sloping ground and mounds of earth , on which grow quantities of palm trees . The whole place , especially towards evening , has a strangely deserted and lone appearance , showing how completely one of the ancient world's ...
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... surrounded by small channels for irrigation , and a little way off are some orange and palm groves . The sculptured figures and birds on the face of the venerable red granite monolith , 67 feet in height , have been greatly filled up by ...
... surrounded by small channels for irrigation , and a little way off are some orange and palm groves . The sculptured figures and birds on the face of the venerable red granite monolith , 67 feet in height , have been greatly filled up by ...
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... surrounded with corridors and sculptured screens as carefully to exclude any prying eyes from seeing the voluptuous retreat which is here dis- closed to our view . Everything you tread on is polished marble , and beyond a tiny ...
... surrounded with corridors and sculptured screens as carefully to exclude any prying eyes from seeing the voluptuous retreat which is here dis- closed to our view . Everything you tread on is polished marble , and beyond a tiny ...
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... surrounded , and fairly breasted the stream . Behold us now on the deck of our queer old - fashioned looking craft , with her white paddle - boxes and antiquated hull , from the stern of which streamed a rather unwashed looking ensign ...
... surrounded , and fairly breasted the stream . Behold us now on the deck of our queer old - fashioned looking craft , with her white paddle - boxes and antiquated hull , from the stern of which streamed a rather unwashed looking ensign ...
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... surrounded by many trees , a good number of the gum tribe especially . Sugar canes , grain , clover , and beans , seemed to be the staple articles grown in the fields through which we passed . Our stay ashore did not exceed two hours ...
... surrounded by many trees , a good number of the gum tribe especially . Sugar canes , grain , clover , and beans , seemed to be the staple articles grown in the fields through which we passed . Our stay ashore did not exceed two hours ...
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