Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 261853 |
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Page xxii
... extensive forests . With the exception of three hilly districts in the south and east , the entire territory presents the appearance of a series of nearly level plains , traversed by numerous streams , delightfully diversified by woods ...
... extensive forests . With the exception of three hilly districts in the south and east , the entire territory presents the appearance of a series of nearly level plains , traversed by numerous streams , delightfully diversified by woods ...
Page xxiii
... extensive tracts of sand , covered with heath , broom , and firs .. Some parts , however , consist of natural prairies , that serve as pasturage for extensive herds of excellent horses , and the portion of Limbourg , on the banks of the ...
... extensive tracts of sand , covered with heath , broom , and firs .. Some parts , however , consist of natural prairies , that serve as pasturage for extensive herds of excellent horses , and the portion of Limbourg , on the banks of the ...
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... extensive transit trade . The surface of the country is also most favourable , being for the most part very flat , and requiring but few of those costly works of railway tunnelling , and embanking , which serve to increase so enormously ...
... extensive transit trade . The surface of the country is also most favourable , being for the most part very flat , and requiring but few of those costly works of railway tunnelling , and embanking , which serve to increase so enormously ...
Page xxx
... extensive marshes , several floating islands , covered with trees and excellent pasture . The proprietors row them like a boat to land their cattle or take them up . The town is on the line of railway from Calais to Lille . Living is ...
... extensive marshes , several floating islands , covered with trees and excellent pasture . The proprietors row them like a boat to land their cattle or take them up . The town is on the line of railway from Calais to Lille . Living is ...
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... extensive marshes , several floating islands , covered with trees and excellent pasture . The proprietors row them like a boat to land their cattle or take them up . The town is on the line of railway from Calais to Lille . Living is ...
... extensive marshes , several floating islands , covered with trees and excellent pasture . The proprietors row them like a boat to land their cattle or take them up . The town is on the line of railway from Calais to Lille . Living is ...
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Abbey altar ancient Antwerp Baden Baths beautiful Belgium BRADSHAW'S bridge Bruges Brussels building built called canal Carriages castle Cathedral celebrated centre century chapel Charlemagne Charleroi Château choir Church of St CLASS HOTEL Coblenz Cologne comfort commands contains Counts of Flanders crosses Duke Emperor English Church erected excellent excursion Families first-class formerly France French Garden German Ghent Gothic GRAND HOTEL hill Holland inhabitants left bank Liége London magnificent Mannheim Mayence Meuse miles moderate charges monument Moselle mountains Museum Namur opposite ornamented Ostend paintings Palace Paris passes Pension picturesque population Prince Promenade Proprietor Prussia rail Railway Station remarkable residence Rhine right bank river road rock Roman Rooms Route Royal Rubens ruins Saloons Scheldt side situated Spires splendid statue Steamers Strassburg streets style Table d'Hôte Theatre tion tower town traveller Trèves valley village visitors West Flanders wine
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Page 177 - CARL WEISS, Proprietor. THIS first-rate establishment, situated near the great Public Promenade, combines comfort with elegance, and has the advantage of possessing a spacious and beautiful garden. Two superior Table d'Hotes daily.
Page 142 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 32 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas!
Page 34 - Was it a soothing or a mournful thought, Amid this scene of slaughter as we stood, Where armies had with recent fury fought, To mark how gentle Nature still pursued Her quiet course, as if she took no care For what her noblest work had suffer'd there.