The World Here and There: Or, Notes of TravellersCharles Dickens G. P. Putnam, 1852 - 231 oldal |
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... carried on a desultory and inconsiderable traffic in hides with California , in tortoise - shell and mother - of - pearl with the Poly- nesian Islands . What then would have been the use of cutting a canal , through which there would ...
... carried on a desultory and inconsiderable traffic in hides with California , in tortoise - shell and mother - of - pearl with the Poly- nesian Islands . What then would have been the use of cutting a canal , through which there would ...
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... carried his surveying ship Sulphur sixty miles up the Estero Real , which rises near the lake , and falls into the gulph . The line of the Panama canal presents , as Humboldt remarks , facilities equal to those of the line of the ...
... carried his surveying ship Sulphur sixty miles up the Estero Real , which rises near the lake , and falls into the gulph . The line of the Panama canal presents , as Humboldt remarks , facilities equal to those of the line of the ...
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... hope of augmenting their number ) when they can rely upon the returns from the goods traffic to make up deficiencies . If merchandise , as well as travellers and letters , could be carried by what is called the 1 * NOTES OF TRAVELLERS .
... hope of augmenting their number ) when they can rely upon the returns from the goods traffic to make up deficiencies . If merchandise , as well as travellers and letters , could be carried by what is called the 1 * NOTES OF TRAVELLERS .
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Or, Notes of Travellers Charles Dickens. letters , could be carried by what is called the overland route ( of which scarcely two hundred miles are travelled by land , ) the passengers ' fares would admit of great reduction ; and as that ...
Or, Notes of Travellers Charles Dickens. letters , could be carried by what is called the overland route ( of which scarcely two hundred miles are travelled by land , ) the passengers ' fares would admit of great reduction ; and as that ...
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... carried . far out into the sea ; and apparently it would be difficult to pre- vent their being sanded up by the waves which the north winds drive upon the coast for a great part of the year . These difficulties , though great , are not ...
... carried . far out into the sea ; and apparently it would be difficult to pre- vent their being sanded up by the waves which the north winds drive upon the coast for a great part of the year . These difficulties , though great , are not ...
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Ahmed Beg amused animals appeared Aripo beautiful Bimbasha boats called canal Canton Captain carpet-bag Ceylon China Chinese Cloth coast colour crowd Davis Straits distance divers dress elephants entered European eyes Father Gozani feet fire flowers gilt Government Greenland horses huge hundred island Isthmus Japan Japanese Jasenica Jews jungle Jusuf Kai-foung-fou Kraal ladies land leave living London looked Melville Island Mikado miles morning mountains Nagasaki native neighbourhood night oysters Pampas Pampas Indians pareo Parry party passed pearls Pelusium Pentateuch Phantom Ship Pole present reached residence river round sail scarcely scene seemed shore side Sir James Ross Spitzbergen Staniza stones Strait streets synagogue Tahiti Tandil temple Teskera thousand tion told town travellers trees Turk vessel village Vitriol walked walls Wellclose Square whilst whole wild young Ziogoon
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8. oldal - ... placed within the reach of everybody ; thought is communicated with the rapidity and even by the power of lightning.
18. oldal - ... technicalities of the Parisian cuisine. Then, vessels were coming in day after day, to lie deserted and useless at their anchorage. Now scarce a day passed, but some cluster of sails, bound outward through the Golden Gate, took their way to all the corners of the Pacific. Like the magic seed of the Indian juggler, which grew, blossomed and bore fruit before the eyes of his spectators, San Francisco seemed to have accomplished in a day the growth of half a century.
8. oldal - ... we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to the accomplishment of that great end to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.
19. oldal - Pasquale was reputed to be among the millionaires of the place, with an income of $50,000 monthly. A citizen of San Francisco died insolvent to the amount of $41,000 the previous Autumn. His administrators were delayed in settling his affairs, and his real estate advanced so rapidly in value meantime, that after his debts were paid his heirs had a yearly income of $40,000.
15. oldal - ... Kanakas from Hawaii, Chinese with long tails, Malays armed with their everlasting creeses and others in whose embrowned and bearded visages it was impossible to recognize any especial nationality. We came at last into the plaza, now dignified by the name of Portsmouth Square. It lies on the slant side of the hill, and from a high pole in front of a long one-story adobe building used as the Custom House, the American flag was flying. On the lower side stood the Parker House — an ordinary frame...
22. oldal - ... and a floor covered with oil-cloth. There are about twenty tables disposed in two rows, all of them so well filled that we have some difficulty in finding places. Taking up the written bill of fare, we find such items as the following : — SOUPS.
8. oldal - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end, to which, indeed, all history points — the realization of the unity of mankind.
22. oldal - steward!" from all parts of the room — the word "waiter" is not considered sufficiently respectful, seeing that the waiter may have been a lawyer or merchant's clerk a few months before.
15. oldal - On every side stood buildings of all kinds, begun or half-finished, and the greater part of them mere canvas sheds, open in front, and covered with all kinds of signs, in all languages. Great quantities of goods were piled up in the open air, for want of a place to store them. The streets were full of people, hurrying to and fro, and of as diverse and bizarre a character as the houses...