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Page 73
... whole market resembles a serdáb or cooling place of Baghdad . The principal men of Brússa sit here during the hottest hours of the day . According to the descriptions of travellers there is no where to be found so pleasant a market ...
... whole market resembles a serdáb or cooling place of Baghdad . The principal men of Brússa sit here during the hottest hours of the day . According to the descriptions of travellers there is no where to be found so pleasant a market ...
Page 74
... whole of what one might call a side chapel , were of carved white marble . There were formerly two tall minarets entirely covered with green faïence , but these were thrown down in the terrible earthquake of 1855 , which destroyed much ...
... whole of what one might call a side chapel , were of carved white marble . There were formerly two tall minarets entirely covered with green faïence , but these were thrown down in the terrible earthquake of 1855 , which destroyed much ...
Page 93
... whole surface , as , wherever he dug , he still found it : in the middle was a hole twelve feet square , around which was raised a wall three feet high , which was the sepulchre containing the relics ; on the outside of this stone was ...
... whole surface , as , wherever he dug , he still found it : in the middle was a hole twelve feet square , around which was raised a wall three feet high , which was the sepulchre containing the relics ; on the outside of this stone was ...
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