Bradshaw's continental [afterw.] monthly continental railway, steam navigation & conveyance guide. June 1847 - July/Oct. 1939, Band 2

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Seite 49 - ... Gloucester.' In the year 1381 the injustice of parliamentary taxation occasioned a famous revolt of 1.
Seite 179 - ... for the table unknown to him ; a bright sky, a glowing sun, hills covered with vines, a deep blue sea, a picturesque and novel costume — all meet and delight the eye, just at the precise moment when to have been landed, even upon a barren island, would have been considered as a luxury.
Seite 82 - Pulpit, magnificently carved, and representing, In a group of ten figures, Jesus among the Doctors. There are also some fine pictures; one especially should be examined, the Circumcision, by Vcraeghem. A fine picture, representing Abigail going to meet David...
Seite 256 - Geneva, the capital, is situate on the slopes of two hills divided by the Rhone, where it issues from the lake, forming in its course two islands, on one of which...
Seite 152 - E. Lat. 45° 57' N. Pop. 1,988. Bourges, t France, cap. of Cher, at the conflux of the Eure and Auron. It has manufactures of silk, woollen, and cotton stuffs, stockings, caps, and other articles of clothing. The chief objects of trade are corn, wine, cattle, wool, hemp, and cloth. It was anciently called Araricum, and afterwards Biturigat. 36 m. NW Nevres, 155 8. Paris. Lon. 2° 23' 55" E. Lat 47° 5' 4
Seite 159 - The town is built in the form of an amphitheatre on the slope of two hills rising from the shore.
Seite 135 - Werk , wird's untergehn' (if it be God's work it will endure, if man's it will perish). Farther to the W. is a Statue of Melanchthon, by Drake, erected in 1866. • — The old Bathhaus, situated at the back of Luther's Monument, dates from the 16th cent.
Seite xix - Passports are granted to all persons either known to the Secretary of State or recommended to him by some person who is known to him ; or upon the application of any banking firm established in London or in any part of the United Kingdom; or upon the production of a certificate of identity signed by any mayor, magistrate, justice of the peace, minister of religion, physician, surgeon, solicitor...
Seite 179 - Winter has become summer ; the naked trees which he left are exchanged for the luxuriant and varied foliage ; snow and frost for warmth and splendour ; the scenery of the temperate zone for the profusion and magnificence of the tropics ; a bright blue sky ; a glowing sun ; hills covered with vines ; a deep blue sea ; a picturesque and novel costume ; — all meet and delight the eye, just at the precise moment when to have landed on a barren island would have been considered a luxury.
Seite xviii - ... by a post-office order for the amount of the fee ; or if forwarded by post to an agent at an outport the postage must be prepaid. But an agent at an outport will only deliver passports to persons applying for them there in pursuance of such certificate, and will not send them by post to any persons whatever. The application for the passport if addressed to " Her Majesty's Secretary of State, Foreign Office, London," should have the word " Passport" conspicuously written upon the cover.

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