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... Springs in the Valley of the Furnas ; with Observations PAGE 317 331 on the Diseases for the Remedy of which they are suitable . 345 INFORMATION TO PERSONS VISITING THE AZORES 363 COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE ISLANDS METEOROLOGICAL TABLES ...
... Springs in the Valley of the Furnas ; with Observations PAGE 317 331 on the Diseases for the Remedy of which they are suitable . 345 INFORMATION TO PERSONS VISITING THE AZORES 363 COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE ISLANDS METEOROLOGICAL TABLES ...
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... springs or drips in banks among the mountains . The water thus obtained was conveyed in barrels on ox - waggons , to a tank in the town , and some rain water was collected in casks . After long droughts , even this scanty supply was ...
... springs or drips in banks among the mountains . The water thus obtained was conveyed in barrels on ox - waggons , to a tank in the town , and some rain water was collected in casks . After long droughts , even this scanty supply was ...
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... spring that has yielded on an average five tons of water daily for the last five years . " A line of iron pipes , of nearly six miles in length , reaching from the mountain to the town , has been laid down , and in the course of the ...
... spring that has yielded on an average five tons of water daily for the last five years . " A line of iron pipes , of nearly six miles in length , reaching from the mountain to the town , has been laid down , and in the course of the ...
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... spring or summer one ; but where there are neither turbans , caps , curls , rouge , nor wax- lights ; none of the ordinary comforts of life , and all its hardships ; where marriages are very early , and children very abundant ; it is ...
... spring or summer one ; but where there are neither turbans , caps , curls , rouge , nor wax- lights ; none of the ordinary comforts of life , and all its hardships ; where marriages are very early , and children very abundant ; it is ...
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... pleasures can exceed those we have enjoyed in our excursions between these islands during this spring and early summer weather . Voyages of two or three days at a time , with light winds BEAUTY OF THE ISLANDS . 137 or gentle breezes ,
... pleasures can exceed those we have enjoyed in our excursions between these islands during this spring and early summer weather . Voyages of two or three days at a time , with light winds BEAUTY OF THE ISLANDS . 137 or gentle breezes ,
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Page 304 - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 304 - A land of beauty, virtue, valour, truth, Time-tutored age, and love-exalted youth. The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ; In every clime the magnet...
Page 135 - I chanced to espy Among the mountains ; never one like this ; So lonesome, and so perfectly secure; Not melancholy ; no, for it is green, And bright, and fertile, furnished in itself With the few needful things that life requires. In rugged arms how softly does it lie, How tenderly protected...
Page 197 - Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : Even so my sun one early morn did shine With...
Page 225 - The food of hope Is meditated action ; robbed of this Her sole support, she languishes and dies. We perish also ; for we live by hope And by desire ; we see by the glad light And breathe the sweet air of futurity ; And so we live, or else we have no life.
Page 15 - There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea. And look at the broad-faced sun, how he smiles On the dewy earth that smiles in his ray, On the leaping waters and gay young isles ; Ay, look, and he'll smile thy gloom away.
Page 263 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Page 193 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 341 - Winter season does of our own. The only advantage of Italy then is, that your penance is shorter than it would be in England ; for I repeat, that during the time it lasts, Winter is more severely felt here, than at Sidmouth, where I would even recommend an Italian invalid to repair, from November till February ; — if he could possess himself of Fortunatus's cap, to remove the difficulties of the journey.