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Page 208
... called by the Egyptians the kamsin , or wind of fifty days , commenced at this period its fatal career . They prevail generally in the fifty days preceding and follow- ing the equinox . They are the winds of the desert , and are justly ...
... called by the Egyptians the kamsin , or wind of fifty days , commenced at this period its fatal career . They prevail generally in the fifty days preceding and follow- ing the equinox . They are the winds of the desert , and are justly ...
Page 263
... called by the natives Mujelibè , or overturned ; the building which Della Valle considered as the far - famed tower of Belus , and whose opinion , as we have already said , has been adopted by Major Rennell . M. Beauchamp called this ...
... called by the natives Mujelibè , or overturned ; the building which Della Valle considered as the far - famed tower of Belus , and whose opinion , as we have already said , has been adopted by Major Rennell . M. Beauchamp called this ...
Page 334
... called a May - pole ; which being placed in a convenient part of the village , stands there , as it were conse- crated to the goddess of flowers , without the least violation offered it , in the whole circle of the year . " To the ...
... called a May - pole ; which being placed in a convenient part of the village , stands there , as it were conse- crated to the goddess of flowers , without the least violation offered it , in the whole circle of the year . " To the ...
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