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
Riviera, The, general aspect, 145;
origin of name, 146;
extent, and climate, 147;
the Estérel, Agay, Golfe de la Napoule, 148;
Ste. Marguerite, and St. Honorat, 149;
Cannes, 150-154;
Monaco, 153;
Monte Carlo, 155;
Mentone, 155, 158;
Roquebrune, 156, 157;
Bordighera, and San Remo, 158;
Alassio and Savona, 159
Riviera di Levante, 146, 185
Riviera di Ponento, 146, 185
Rodney, Lord, and the siege of Gibraltar, 18
Roger II., 314
Rogers, Samuel, on Andrea Doria, 173
Romans, The, at Marseilles, 97, 110;
at Genoa, 162;
at Nicæa, 128;
at Malaga, 46
Ronda, Mountains of, 17
Rooke, Sir George, and the siege of Gibraltar, 21
Roquebrune, 156;
quaint story connected with, 156
Rose, The Chevalier, and the plague of Marseilles, 113
Roses of the Riviera, 145
Rosetta, 253;
reputed birthplace of Haroun Al Rashid, 256;
English expedition of 1807, 256;
archælogical discoveries, 258
Rosia Bay, Gibraltar, 14, 20, 23
Rostang, 121
Rusellæ, 211
Ruskin, Professor, on St. Mark's, Venice, 223, 224
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_Sacro catino_, The, at Genoa, 181
Sahel Mountains, The, 30
Sais, 263
Salerno, temples at, 349
Salles, De, 121
Salmun, 293
Salvian, at St. Honorat, 150
San Remo, 131, 158, 159
San Roque, 23
San Salvador, 291
Santa Croce, Cape, 303
Santa Marinella, 214
Santa Severa, 214
Saracens, at Marseilles, 109;
at Genoa, 163;
at Civita Vecchia, 212
Sarcophagus of Ashmunazar, King of Sidon, at Girgenti, 308
Savona, 159
Savoy, Counts of, and Nice, 129
Scoglio Marfo, 271
Scylla and Charybdis, 295
Sebta, or Septem, derivation of "Ceuta," 25
Segesta, 319;
temples at, 320
Selinunto, 319;
ancient temples at, 320
Senglea, 289
Serapeum, The, at Alexandria, 248
Serapis, Temple of, 236
Seravezza, Marble quarries at, and Michael Angelo, 197
Serpentine at Spezzia, 188
Shakespeare, allusion to the Nile, 260
Sheba, Queen of, and the _sacro catino_ in the cathedral of Genoa, 181
Shelley, last days at Lerici, and death, 192, 193
Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, and the siege of Gibraltar, 21
Sicily, appearance from the sea, 295;
Messina, 296, 297;
Taormina, 297, 298;
Etna, and Aci Reale, 299, 300;
Ortygia, 303;
Syracuse, 303;
Girgenti, 307;
Palermo, 312-318;
San Guiliane, 318;
Selinunto, 318;
Monte Pellegrino, 322
Siege of Gibraltar, 17-20
Sierra of the Snows, The, 17
Simos and Protis, supposed founders of Marseilles, 94
Smollett, Tobias, Grave of, 202
Snails as an article of diet, 330
Soldiers at Gibraltar, 11
Sorrento, 130, 345;
and Tasso, 346
Sovana, 211
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