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... built in a connected series from midway up the mountain to the base of the valley . The creeks and basins of the descending slopes , secured by massive walls , form separate * Playfair's History of Yemen . reservoirs , joined by ...
... built in a connected series from midway up the mountain to the base of the valley . The creeks and basins of the descending slopes , secured by massive walls , form separate * Playfair's History of Yemen . reservoirs , joined by ...
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... built like an oven rays of light are reflected to fall on the towers . Scented woods , burnt within , dis- pense odours perceptible to a distance , and in sheds or chapels on either side the priests pray while the bodies are carried ...
... built like an oven rays of light are reflected to fall on the towers . Scented woods , burnt within , dis- pense odours perceptible to a distance , and in sheds or chapels on either side the priests pray while the bodies are carried ...
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... built in 1720 , and is full of interesting tablets , some dating as far back as 1760. One sculptured monument represents an officer in the arms of Victory , and beneath , a dismantled French man - of - war , lying alongside a smaller ...
... built in 1720 , and is full of interesting tablets , some dating as far back as 1760. One sculptured monument represents an officer in the arms of Victory , and beneath , a dismantled French man - of - war , lying alongside a smaller ...
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... built over the pile , with the corpse of her husband beside her , and just before the fire was applied , a venerable Brahman took me by the hand and led me close to the straw , through which he made an open- ing , and desired me to ...
... built over the pile , with the corpse of her husband beside her , and just before the fire was applied , a venerable Brahman took me by the hand and led me close to the straw , through which he made an open- ing , and desired me to ...
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... built huts . Natives , half or wholly naked , patching mud walls , stop their work to conduct us to the temple of Krishna . Solidly built of stone , turned to the deepest black by the action of the atmosphere ( which here has this ...
... built huts . Natives , half or wholly naked , patching mud walls , stop their work to conduct us to the temple of Krishna . Solidly built of stone , turned to the deepest black by the action of the atmosphere ( which here has this ...
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