Memoir Descriptive of the Resources, Inhabitants, and Hydrography, of Sicily and Its Islands, Interspersed with Antiquarian and Other NoticesJ. Murray, 1824 - 291 |
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Abbot of Santa Ætna afford Agathocles Alicata Alicudi anchor anchorage ancient appearance Baron beach beautiful called Cape caricatore Carthaginians castle Catania Cefalù celebrated church cliff coast of Sicily convent cove crater declivity distance eastward edifices Faro fathoms Favignana feet fertile fish formed Girgenti harbour height hill houses hundred inhabitants island Lampedusa land lava light-house Linosa Lipari Marina Maritimo Mascali Messina Milazzo miles mole Monte Mount Etna mountain nearly Noto occasion Palermo Panaria Pantellaria Passaro plain port pozzolana Prince principal Riposto rock rocky Romans round salubrious sand sandy Saracens ships shoal shore Sicilian Sicily Siculiana side situated southward spot stands steep sulphur summit Syracuse Taormina temple thousand tolerable tonnara tower town Demone town Mazzara town Noto town town Trapani Tyrrhenian sea Ustica valley vessels vestiges village Demone village Mazzara volcanic wall westward whole wholesome winds wine
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Strona 62 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Strona xvi - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground; for here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, that not a mountain rears its head unsung, renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, and every stream in heavenly numbers flows.
Strona 152 - ... or volcanic lightnings, hollow intonations, and local earthquakes that often alarm the surrounding country as far as Messina, and have given the whole province the name of Val Demone, as being the abode of infernal spirits. These agitations increase until the vast cauldron becomes surcharged with the fused minerals, when, if the convulsion is not sufficiently powerful to force them from the great crater (which, from its great altitude and the weight of the candent matter...
Strona 123 - I have seen several men-of-war, and even a seventy-four gun ship, whirled round on its surface; but, by using due caution, there is generally very little danger or inconvenience to be apprehended. It appears to be an agitated water, of from seventy to ninety fathoms in depth, circling in quick eddies.
Strona 267 - An omen'd voice invades his ravish'd ear. Beneath a pile that close the dome adjoin'd, Twelve female slaves the gift of Ceres grind ; Task'd for the royal board to bolt the bran From the pure flour...
Strona 22 - When by these means the chamber is filled, which sometimes occupies two or three days, large flat-floored boats, peculiarly constructed for the purpose, assisted by many smaller ones, close round, and weighing the net, secure the prey with harpoons, and another species of sharp hook on a wooden staff, that is struck into the head to prevent the fish from floundering, and in the management of which weapon the fishermen display an active dexterity.
Strona 123 - Rainiere, that forms the harbour of Messina, lies the Galofaro, or celebrated vortex of Charybdis, which has, with more reason than Scylla, been clothed with terrors by the writers of antiquity.
Strona 256 - The masses are usually thrown up to the height of from sixty or seventy to three hundred feet ; but some, the descent of which I computed to occupy from nine to twelve seconds, must have ascended above a thousand. In the moderate ejections, the stones in their ascent gradually diverged, like a grand pyrotechnical exhibition, and fell into the abyss again; except on the side next the sea, where they rolled down in quick succession, after bounding from the declivity to a considerable distance in the...
Strona 168 - Postlethwaite was astonished at hearing his speech strike against the roof almost like a ball from a racket, louder, indeed, it seemed than when it passed his lips. Captain Smythe, in his memoir descriptive of Sicily, gives this more scientific explanation : "It is in the shape of a parabolic curve ending in an elliptical arch, with sides parallel to its axis, perfectly smooth and covered with a slight stalactitic incrustation, that renders its repercussion exceedingly sonorous.
Strona 124 - It is owing probably to the meeting of the harbour and lateral currents with the main one, the latter being forced over in this direction by the opposite point of Pezzo. This agrees in some measure with the relation of Thucydides, who calls it a violent reciprocation of the Tyrrhene and Sicilian seas ; and he is the only writer of remote antiquity I remember to have read, who has assigned this danger its true situation, and not exaggerated its effects. Many wonderful stories are told respecting this...