The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable RuinsAllen, Grant
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The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable Ruins
Allen, Grant
Europe, Southern -- Description and travel; Mediterranean Region -- Description and travel
Alexandria, 96;
appearance from the sea, 235;
historical interest, 236;
Alexander's choice of the site, 237;
harbor, 238;
main street, 240;
Grand Square, 241;
Palace of Ras-et-teen, 243;
view from Mount Caffarelli and the Delta, 244;
Pompey's Pillar, 246;
Library, 247;
the Serapeum, cemeteries, mosques, Coptic convent, and historic
landmarks, 248;
defeat of Antony, and Napoleon, 251;
Ramleh, 251;
Temple of Arsenoe, 252;
Aboukir Bay and Nelson, 253, 254;
Rosetta, Haroun Al Rashid, and the English expedition of 1807, 256;
fertility of the Delta, 258;
Cairo and the rising of the Nile, 260;
Damietta, 261;
Port Said, 261, 262;
ruins of Pelusium, 263;
Suez Canal and M. de Lesseps, 264
Algeciras, 4, 23, 24
Algeria, 78, 97
Algiers, 96, 123;
"a pearl set in emeralds," 28;
the approach to, and the Djurjura, 29;
the Sahel, Atlas, and the ancient and modern towns, 30;
cathedral and mosque, 31;
tortuous plan of the new town, 33, 34;
Mustapha Supérieur, and English colony, 35, 37;
a Moorish villa, 38;
view from El Biar, Arab cemetery, and idolatry, 39;
superstitions and climate, 41
Alhendin, 59
Ali, Mehemet, 239;
his works in Alexandria, 241, 242;
destroys English troops at Rosetta, 257
Almeria, 55, 56, 57
Alps, The, 131;
the Julian, 147, 148, 154
Alpujarras, The, 44, 55
Altinum, 231
Amalfi, 345, 347, 349
Amru, 236
Amsterdam and its canals, 219
Anacapri, 344
Anchises, 318
André, St., 139, 143
Angelo, Michael, and the marble quarries at Seravezza, 197
Ansedonia, 211
Antibes, 96, 147, 151, 152
Antipolis, 151
Antony, Mark, defeated by Octavius at Mustapha Pacha, 251
Apes' Hill, English designation of Ceuta, 26
Aquæ Sextiæ, or Aix, Roman colony on the site of Marseilles, 109
Arabic legend and the Moorish Castle, Gibraltar, 15
Aragon, Kings of, Palace of the, at Barcelona, 67, 83
Arbiter, Petronius, 122
Aristophanes, and the sausage-seller, 148
Arles, 110
Arsenoe, Temple of, and the story related by Catullus, 252
Aryan Achæans, 108
Aryan and Semite struggle against Christianity and Mohammedanism, 4
Athanasius at Alexandria, 236
Athens, 96
Atlantic, Ideas of ancient Greeks respecting the, 2
Atlas, Mount, 29
Attard, "village of roses," 291
Attila, 233
Augustine, St., and the angel, 213;
at St. Honorat, 150
Augustus, and Turbia, 153
Autran, Joseph, 122
Avenza, 195
Avernus, 338
Avignon, 96
B
Bab-el-Sok, gate of the market-place at Tangier, 6
Baiæ, 339
Balzac, witty remark on dinners in Paris, 89
Balzan, 291
Barbaroux, 122
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