| Sir Charles Fellows - 1839 - 442 Seiten
...arriving here is the extreme beauty of the situation of the ancient town, lying between and upon the sides of two hills, with an extensive valley in front, watered by the river Cestrus and backed by the mountains of the Taurus. An arch, a kind of castle, and the ruins of a temple,... | |
| Charles Anthon - 1841 - 664 Seiten
...here (at Perga) is the extreme beauty of the situation of the ancient town, lying between and upon the sides of two hills, with an extensive valley in front, watered by the river Cestrus, and backed by the mountains of Taurus." He speaks also of the ruins here of an immense and... | |
| 1851 - 922 Seiten
...arriving here is the extreme beauty of the situation of the ancient town, lying between and upon the sides of two hills, with an extensive valley in front, watered by the river Cestrus and backed by the mountains of the Taurus. An arch, a kind of castle, and the ruins of a temple,... | |
| Horatio Balch Hackett - 1852 - 446 Seiten
...the town. Nothing else remains of Perga but the beauty of its natural situation, between and upon the sides of two hills, with an extensive valley in front,...Oestrus, and backed by the mountains of the Taurus."* — 'lшаwijr, к. r. X. Why John Mark left them so abruptly is unknown. His reason for it, certainly,... | |
| Henry Alford - 1852 - 798 Seiten
...àvairXivTavTi araôiovç ¿Кцкиута FIípyi| TTÓXtc, Strabo, xiv. p. 667), " between and upon the sides of two hills, with an extensive valley in front, watered by the river Cestrus, and backed by the mountains of the Taurus " (C. and H. p. 173, from Sir C. Fellows's Asia... | |
| 1852 - 432 Seiten
...arriving here is the extreme beauty of the situation of the ancient town, lying between and upon the sides of two hills, with an extensive valley in front, watered by the river Cestrus and backed by the mountains of the Taurus. An arch, a kind of castle, and the ruins of a temple,... | |
| Horatio Balch Hackett - 1852 - 432 Seiten
...the town. Nothing else remains of Perga but the beauty of its natural situation, between and upon the sides of two hills, with an extensive valley in front, watered by the river Cestrus, and backed by the mountains of the Taurus."* — 'iu)«i/i///v, к. т. X. Why John Mark left... | |
| William John Conybeare - 1854 - 528 Seiten
...town. Nothing else remains of Perga, but the beauty of its natural situation, " between and upon the sides of two hills, with an extensive valley in front,...Oestrus, and backed by the mountains of the Taurus." 3 The coins of Perga are a lively illustration of its character as a city of the Greeks. We have no... | |
| 1851 - 936 Seiten
...arriving here is the extreme beauty of the situation of the ancient town, lying between and upon the sides of two hills, with an extensive valley in front, watered by the river Oestrus and backed by the mountain- of the Taurus. An arch, a kind of castle, and the ruins of a temple, bespeak the vicinity... | |
| LYMAN COLEMAN - 1860 - 192 Seiten
...arriving here is the extreme beauty of the situation of the ancient town, lying between and upon the sides of two hills, with an extensive valley in front, watered by the river Cestrus 219 THE LABOURS OF ST. PAUL. and backed by the mountains of the Taurus. An arch, a kind of... | |
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