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Author : Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt
language : en
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Release Date : 1865
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Author : Thomas A. Spratt
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-03-31
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Author : Thomas A. B. Spratt
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Release Date : 1865
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Author : Spratt T. A. B.
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Author : Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt
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Travels And Researches In Crete Vol 1 Of 2 Classic Reprint
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Author : T. A. B. Spratt
language : en
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Release Date : 2015-07-07
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Excerpt from Travels and Researches in Crete, Vol. 1 of 2 Mahomedans of Crete. - Greek the common language. - Close association of the creeds - its natural effects. - An enlightened pasha, intrigue against him. - Over-estimate of the Greek population. - Greek rising, and persecution of the Mohamedans. - The Sfakians - their dialect - its Hellenic connexion shown by the late Col. Leake; Gnossus - its site - its few remains at present - cause of this. - The Labyrinth. - Plutarch's account of the Minotaur and Labyrinth. - Ancient tombs at Gnossus - its ancient ports of Amnisus and Heracleion; Gnossus an early seat of Art and Learning before Greece. - Sculpture by Daedalus. - Subsequent celebrity of Cretan art. - Its coins remarkable for art and for their imperfect surface and form. - Eminent Cretan sculptors. - A Cretan Venus. - A Cretan head of Zeus. - Leonardo da Vinci's picture; Mount Iuktas, the burial-place of Zeus; route to it. - Turkish Monastery. - Three dervishes. - View from Mount Iuktas. - Rhaucus. - Valley of Arkhanes - its hospitable inhabitants. - Tranquil nights; their treachery to the traveller; Ancient cities of Lyttus and Lycastus. - Position of the latter at Astritzi. - Thenae. - Plain of Pediada; ascent to the site of Lyttus from it. - The description of the site and its remains - its inscription - its coins About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Travels And Researches In Crete In Two Volumes
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Author : T. A. Spratt
language : en
Publisher: Fisher Press
Release Date : 2010-08
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Author : Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt
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Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-05-23
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Author : T. A. B. Spratt
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2016-10-07
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Excerpt from Travels and Researches in Crete, Vol. 2 of 2 Denoss of successive elevations of the coast - Summer unhealthiness of the shores of Suda Bay. - Road to Kha. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author : Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... the port. Scylax adds that it was the first city on the west promontory of Crete, and was a day's sail from Laceda3mon. It was natural that on my first visit to the city, its REMOVAL OF THE ANCIENT PORT. 231 artificial port having been thus referred to by so many authors, I should make special search to identify it; for although Pashley seemed to be satisfied that the mere indentation of the rocky coast-line under its walls was the said port, I could not be reconciled to that opinion. But I looked in vain for some mole in the sea in front of the indentation to render it somewhat sheltered and safe as an artificial emporium or'trading-port; there was not even a sandy beach at any part of the rocky shore upon which a vessel could be safely landed, or hauled up, in the least swell or sea; all was sea-worn rocks and very rugged. Consequently, as the indentation was open and exposed to all south and south-westerly breezes, and the whole western swell for a distance of 500 miles or more, and the low outlying islet of Petaledes off it affords but little shelter to the bay, I could nowhere recognize the trading-port, and left the place with its phenomena greatly puzzling me. On a subsequent visit, however, and after a contemplation of the plan I had made, remembering also that on a former visit to the island of Cerigotto an elevation of the coast was observable there that was clearly, from local evidences and traditions, subsequent to the historical period, it occurred to me that the same might have been the case here, although so much greater and more general, and that the quadrangular space enclosed by the unusually massive 232 PORT REMOVED FEOM THE SEA. Hellenic walls upon the plain in front of the chapel of Agios Giorgios, minutely described...