The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable RuinsAllen, Grant
History
The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable Ruins
Allen, Grant
Europe, Southern -- Description and travel; Mediterranean Region -- Description and travel
Girgenti, "City of Temples," monuments of Pagan worship, and Pindar's
designation, 307;
Temple of Concord, 309;
Temple of Hercules, ravages of earthquakes, and Shelley's allusion in
"Ozymandias," 311, 312
Golfe de la Napoule, 148
Gondolas of Venice, 222
Gothard, St., 228
Gough, Colonel, his defeat of Marshal Victor at Tarifa, 4
Government House at Gibraltar, 23
Gozo, 270, 272, 273
Granada, 17, 59
Greeks, at Gibraltar, 10;
their trade at Marseilles, 106, 109, 110
Grimaldi, The, 179
Gros, Mont, 139
Grosseto, 209
Grotto, at Malta and St. Paul, 293;
of Sta. Rosalia, 317;
Di Posilipo, 335;
at Capri, 343
Guelphs, The, and Genoa, 163
Guzman, Alonzo Perez de, and his act of defiance at Tarifa, 4
Gzeier, 271
H
Hamilcar Barca, and Pellegrino, 317
Hamrun, 291
Harbor of Marseilles, 106
Haroun al Rashid, reputed birthplace, 256
Hepaticas, Valley of, 139
"Hercules, Pillars of," 1, 2, 5, 17
Hercules and Temple at Girgenti, 311;
Temple at Selinunto, 319
Hesse, Prince of, and the acquisition of Gibraltar, 22
Hicks, Captain, and the siege of Gibraltar, 22
Hieroglyphics, Egyptian, at Rosetta, 257
Hiram, and Malaga, 46
Homeric era, "Pillars of Hercules" in the, 2
Honorat, St., 149
Hougoumont, Château of, 15
Hyères, 96, 146
Hypatia at Alexandria, 236
I
Iberian race of Genoa, 162
Imtarfa, 292
Ischia, 326
Islands of the Blest, 2
Israfel, The Angel, and a belief of the Moslems, 249
Ivory on houses in Tangier, 5
J
Jews, at Gibraltar, 10
John of Portugal, King, takes Ceuta from the Moors, 25
Joseph of Arimathea, and the _sacro catino_ at Genoa, 181
Jumper, Captain, and the siege of Gibraltar, 20
Jupiter, Temple of, at Ortygia, 304
K
Keats, Grave of, 194
L
La Haye, Farmhouse of, 15
La Mortola, Point, 157
_Laguna Morta_, The, at Venice, 230
Landslip at Roquebrune, 156
Lane-Poole, Mr. Stanley, and the Nile, 259
Las Palmas, 296
Lazarus, Legend respecting, at Marseilles, 116
Leghorn, its dullness, 163;
history, and canals, 201;
streets, harbor, trade, statue of Ferdinand, and burial-place of,
Smollett, 202
Lentini, 302
Leo, The constellation, and Berenice's locks, 252
Lepanto, Battle of, 221
Lerici, and Shelley's last days, 192
Lérins, Vincent de, at St. Honorat, 149
Lesseps, M. de, and the Suez Canal, 264
Lia, 291
Library, Garrison, at Gibraltar, 13;
at Alexandria, 247
Lighthouse of Ta Giurdan, 272
Liguria, noted for the cunning of its people, 162
Ligurian Sea, 146
Limpia, Harbor and village of, 127
Lion of St. Mark at Venice, 226
Lisbon, 21
Louis XIV., 97;
and the storming of Barcelona, 83
Luna, Remains of, 194
Lyons, Climate of, 90
M
Macgregor, Mr. John (Rob Roy), and the ruins of Tanis, 263
Magnan, The, 139
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