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
Carrara, church of St. Andrea, and the marble quarries, 196;
mosquitos, 197
Cartama, 51
Carthagenians, and Genoa, 162;
destruction of Selinus, 319
Casal Curmi, 291
Casal Nadur, 273
Cassian, St., and the monastery of St. Victor, Marseilles, 116
Castellaccio, Fort of, 297
Castellamare, 345
Castiglione della Pescaia, 209
Castile, 25
Castle, Moorish, at Gibraltar, 15
Catacombs at Alexandria, 249
Catania, 302
Cathedral, at Gibraltar, 13;
at Marseilles, 98;
at Genoa, 80;
at Barcelona, 65;
at Nice, 129;
at Almeria, 57;
at Algiers, 31;
at Pisa, 194;
St. Mark's, Venice, 224-226
Catullus, and his story relating to the temple of Arsenoe, 252
Cemetery at Alexandria, 248
Cervantes, eulogium on Barcelona, 61
Ceuta, 17;
origin of name and history of, 25;
main features of, 26;
ancient names, and shape of rock, 26
Champollion, M., and the Egyptian stone at Rosetta, 258
Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, and his palace at Genoa, 172
"Charles III., King," 21, 22
Charles V., 20
Château d'If, 105
Chiavari, 186
Chioggia, 230
Cholera, The, at Marseilles, 112
Cimiez, 127, 138;
monastery and amphitheatre of, 139, 142
Civita Vecchia, its founder and history, 213
Cleopatra, and Antony, at Alexandria, 236;
Baths of, at Alexandria, 250
Cleopatra's Needle, 246
Columbus, Monument to, at Genoa, 177;
monument at Barcelona, 69;
his reception at Barcelona by Ferdinand and Isabella, 69, 83
Cominetto, 270
Comino, 268, 272
Concha, General, and the sugar-cane industry of Malaga, 51
Constantinople, 95
Contes, 139
Convent, Coptic, at Alexandria, 248
Coneto, "lifts to heaven a diadem of towers," 212;
churches, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, and origin, 213
Cornigliano, 147
Corno, Remains of, 212
Corradino, 288
Cosspicua, 289
Cremation suggested for adoption in Barcelona, 71
Cressy, Battle of, 179
Cumæ, 333, 339
Cyclops, The, and the Scogli dei Ciclopi, 301
Cyrus, 94
D
Damanhour, 258
Damietta, 261
Darby, Admiral, and the siege of Gibraltar, 18
Delord, Taxile, 122
Delta, Egyptian, Fertility of the, 258
Djama-el-Kebir, Mosque at Tangier of the, 6
Djurjura, The, 29
Don, General, and the Alameda Gardens, Gibraltar, 13
Doria, Andrea, and his influence in Genoa, 164, 173;
incidents in his life, 176
Drinkwater, Captain John, and the siege of Gibraltar, 18
Dumas, Alexandre, allusion to Pozzuoli, 338
D'Urfé, 122
E
"Eagle-Catchers," The (87th Regiment), 4
Edward, son of King John of Portugal, and his expedition against
Tangier, 25
Egypt, variety of interest connected with, 238;
inscribed stone at Rosetta, 257;
agricultural wealth of, 258;
the "gift of the Nile," 259;
English expedition of 1807, 256
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