Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 180
been our pride and delight wouldthere be taken down, and our good boat, her graceand swiftness gone at one fell swoop, would become amere lumbering barge, more suggestive of civic outingson the Thames than of Cleopatras galley. For some way beyond Abou Simbel, the western bankis fringed by a long… … 146 A Book of Famous Travels top of each mountain, thick as the currants on the topof a certain cake, known to schoolboys by the endearingname of black-caps, lies a layer of the oddest blackstones in the world. Having more than once been tothe top of the rock of Abshek (which is the first…
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