Asia: A Supplementary GeographyMacmillan, 1913 - 198 pagini |
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Afghanistan ancient Arabia Asia bamboo beautiful Bombay Brown Bros building built called camels canals capital carried Caspian Caspian Sea Ceylon CHAPTER China Chinese climate coal coast Constantinople continent Copyrighted by Brown cotton crops Damascus dense desert east enter Europe exported extends feet fertile fish forests Ganges gardens gates grown Gulf Hindu Kush Hoag FIG Holy Land houses Howell FIG hundred India Indo China irrigation island Japan Japanese Jerusalem jinrikisha Kabul known Korea Lake large number live lofty lowlands manufacturing means Mecca Mediterranean miles monsoon moun mountains natives ocean pearl Peking peninsula Persia Photo by Hoag Photo by Howell plain plateau population railroad rain rainfall rainy season rice river sedan chair ship shore Siam Siberia silk slope stone Strait streams streets Suez summer thousand Tibet trees tundra Turkey Ural Mountains valley wall Western Ghats women worn
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Pagina 43 - Lo, Bethlehem's hill-site before me is seen, With the mountains around, and the valleys between ; There rested the shepherds of Judah, and there The song of the angels rose sweet on the air.
Pagina 43 - And throned on her hills sits Jerusalem yet, But with dust on her forehead, and chains on her feet; For the crown of her pride to the mocker hath gone, And the holy Shechinah is dark where it shone.
Pagina 43 - Blue sea of the hills ! in my spirit I hear Thy waters, Gennesaret, chime on my ear ; Where the lowly and just with the people sat down, And thy spray on the dust of His sandals was thrown.
Pagina 43 - PALESTINE. BLEST land of Judsea ! thrice hallowed of song, Where the holiest of memories pilgrimlike throng ; In the shade of thy palms, by the shore* of thy sea. On the hills of thy beauty, my heart is with thee. With the eye of a spirit I look on that shore, Where pilgrim and prophet have lingered before ; With the glide of a spirit I traverse the sod Made bright by the steps of the angels of God.
Pagina 77 - Taurus' rocky side Two infant rivers pour the crystal tide, Indus the one, and one the Ganges named; Between these streams, fair smiling to the day, The Indian lands their wide domain display, And many a league far to the south they bend From the broad region where the rivers end, Till where the shores to Ceylon's isle oppose In conic form, the Indian regions close.
Pagina 125 - We, the evening's latest born, Hail the children of the morn ! We, the new creation's birth, Greet the lords of ancient earth, From their storied walls and towers Wandering to these tents of ours ! Land of wonders, fair Cathay, Who long hast shunned the staring day, Hid in mists of poet's dreams By thy blue and yellow streams, — Let us thy shadowed form behold, — Teach us as thon didst of old.
Pagina 59 - Wastes where no dews distil their diamond tears, The only living things foul birds of prey, Who whet their beaks, or court the solar ray, And wolves that fill with...
Pagina 53 - O'ER Arabia's desert sands The patient camel walks ; Mid lonely caves and rocky lands The fell hyena stalks. On the cool and shady hills Coffee shrubs and tamarinds grow ; Headlong fall the welcome rills Down the fruitful dells below. The fragrant myrrh and healing balm Perfume the passing gale ; Thick hung with dates, the spreading palm Towers o'er the peopled vale.
Pagina 21 - Meeting at once, where high athwart their bed Repulsive rocks a curving barrier spread, The embattled floods, by mutual whirlpools crost, In hoary foam and surging mist were lost ; Thence, like an Alpine cataract of snow, White down the precipice they...
Pagina 111 - Its length is over 1,200 miles, its height 20 feet, its thickness 25 feet at the base, and 15 feet at the top. At intervals of 100 feet are towers. For a good part of its length, the wall is now but a heap of rubbish. This great structure was built about 200 BC as a defence against the Tartars. There standeth a building which ages have tried: It Is not a dwelling.