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Identifier: crescentcrossor01warbuoft (find matches)
Title: The crescent and the cross; or, Romance and realities of eastern travel
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Warburton, Eliot, 1810-1852
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: London H. Colburn
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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its, little valleys withcascades and rivers, lawny meadows and dark woods,trim gardens and tangled vineyards, silvery sandsand craggy shores—all within a circuit of five or sixmiles. In our eyes it was still the enchanted island,and in our ears the faint sounds that came to us overthe sunny sea were of shepherds lute or womanssono-; but a fat gentleman in green spectacles calledit Pantellaria, and informed us that it was the BotanyBay of Naples. 1 The reader will find some useful notices of Algiers in Wildswell-written Narrative. Prince Piickler Muskau has given someamusing narrative and information on this subject: though the lattercannot be depended on, it may serve to direct inquiry. 20 MALTA, One or two uninhabited little islands, that seem tohave lost their way, speck the sea between thispleasant penal settlement and Gozo, a rival claimantfor the doubtful honour of Calypsos isle. Narrowstraits separate this from the adjoining rock, whichrepresents the island of Malta. MALTA. 21
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MALTA, FROM THE ANCHORAGE. CHAPTER IV, MALTA. Adieu to Malta—and adieu,Triumphant sons of truest blue,Whom every sea, and clime, and shore,And fallen chiefs, and fleets no more,And nightly smiles, and daily dinners.Proclaim as war and womans winners. Byron. After a couple of hours coasting, we entered awatery ravine of battery-crowned cliffs, and came toan anchor in the Grand Harbour. La Valetta is a sort of hybrid between a Spanishand an Eastern town : most of its streets are Hisrhts 22 • MALTA. of steps, to which the verandahs of the houses arelike gio-antic banisters. Its terraced roofs restore tothe cooped-up citizens nearly all the space lost bybuilding upon ; and there are probably not less thanfive hundred acres of promenadable roof in, or ratheron, the city. The church of San Giovanni is verygorgeous, with its vaulted roof of gilded arabesque, itscrimson tapestries, finely carved pulpits, and its floor,which seems one vast escutcheon. It is a mosaic ofknightly tombs, on wh

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