The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe.: Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.Reclus, Elisée
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The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe.: Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal.
Reclus, Elisée
Europe -- Description and travel; Geography
INDEX . . . 501
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
MAPS PRINTED IN COLOURS.
1. Ethnographical Map of Europe . . . 18
2. Turkey-in-Europe and Greece . . . 85
3. The Bosphorus and Constantinople . . . 98
4. Ethnographical Map of Turkey . . . 148
5. Italy . . . 183
6. The Delta of the Po . . . 210
7. The Bay of Naples . . . 288
8. Spain and Portugal . . . 365
PLATES.
Peasants from the Environs of Athens . . . _To face page_ . . . 53
Constantinople and the Golden Horn, from the Heights of Eyub . . . 99
Albanians . . . 118
Wealthy Arnauts . . . 124
Turkish Muleteers in the Herzegovina . . . 127
Tirnova . . . 133
Bulgarians . . . 138
Mussulman of Adrianople, and Mussulman Lady of Prisrend . . . 147
Wallachians (Valakhs) . . . 162
Belgrade . . . 174
The Pennine Alps, as seen from the Becca di Nona (Pic Carrel), 10,380
feet . . . 195
Venice . . . 207
The Palace at Ferrara . . . 228
Verona . . . 229
Peasants of the Abruzzos . . . 258
Naples . . . 300
Capri, seen from Massa Lubrense . . . 302
Amalfi . . . 304
La Valetta, Malta . . . 337
Peasants of Toledo, Castile . . . 390
Roman Bridge at Alcántara . . . 391
Gorge de los Gaitanes, Defile of Guadalhorce . . . 399
Peasants of Córdova, Andalusia . . . 406
Gibraltar, as seen from the “Lines” . . . 414
Peasants of La Huerta, and Cigarrera of Valencia . . . 419
Women of Ibiza, Balearic Isles . . . 425
Monserrat, Catalonia . . . 431
Barcelona, seen from the Castle of Monjuich . . . 437
Gorges of Pancorbo . . . 440
Los Pasages . . . 447
Oporto . . . 478
Lisbon . . . 484
ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT.
EUROPE.
1. The Natural Boundary of Europe . . . 7
2. The Relief of Europe . . . 8
3. Development of Coast-lines relatively to Area . . . 14
4. The Isothermal Zone of Europe . . . 17
THE MEDITERRANEAN.
5. The Depth of the Mediterranean . . . 24
6. The Strait of Gibraltar . . . 26
7. Principal Fisheries of the Mediterranean . . . 30
8. Steamer Routes and Telegraphs . . . 34
GREECE.
9. MAINOTE AND SPARTAN . . . 42
10. Foreign Elements in the Population of Greece . . . 44
11. MOUNT PARNASSUS AND DELPHI . . . 46
12. Lower Acarnania . . . 49
13. Thermopylæ . . . 50
14. Lake Copais . . . 52
15. THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS . . . 54
16. Athens and its Long Walls . . . 55
17. Ancient Athens . . . 56
18. MOUNT TAYGETUS . . . 58
19. Lakes Phenea and Stymphalus . . . 60
20. The Plateau of Mantinea . . . 62
21. Bifurcation of the Gastuni . . . 63
22. The Valley of the Eurotas . . . 67
23. Euripus and Chalcis . . . 70
24. Nea Kaimeni . . . 72
25. CORFU . . . 76
26. The Channel of Santa Maura . . . 77
27. Argostoli . . . 79
TURKEY IN EUROPE.
28. THE GORGE OF HAGIO RUMELI . . . 91
29. Crete, or Candia . . . 93
30. The Ægean Sea . . . 95
31. Geological Map of the Peninsula of Constantinople . . . 99
32. The Hellespont, or Dardanelles . . . 105
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