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Page 138
... plain before it , watered with several streams that flow from the neighbouring hill to the south east , and with the Pactolus , arising from the same , on the east , and increasing with its waters the stream of Hermus , with which it ...
... plain before it , watered with several streams that flow from the neighbouring hill to the south east , and with the Pactolus , arising from the same , on the east , and increasing with its waters the stream of Hermus , with which it ...
Page 226
... plain . ' Up to fifty years ago , ' Big Ismail would begin - and once he had begun he never stopped , as if he were reciting a love story or a song - ' the Chukurova was nothing but swamps and bullrush beds with only a few tiny fields ...
... plain . ' Up to fifty years ago , ' Big Ismail would begin - and once he had begun he never stopped , as if he were reciting a love story or a song - ' the Chukurova was nothing but swamps and bullrush beds with only a few tiny fields ...
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... plain was a little paradise , and would have been in every way perfect had it not been for the prevalence , during certain months of the year , of intermittent fever – that curse of all parts of the Turkish dominions , which , however ...
... plain was a little paradise , and would have been in every way perfect had it not been for the prevalence , during certain months of the year , of intermittent fever – that curse of all parts of the Turkish dominions , which , however ...
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