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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 136 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=209gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of t… Plus…

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 136 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=8mm, Gew.=209gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. I'ESTH?BUDA?DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO CITIES ? THE DANUBE ? GREEK JEWESSES TKAVELLING COMPANIONS?SCHUTH ISLANDS?A STOPPAGE ? A TRANSFER?KLEIN-BODAK?GONYO?KOMORN?DOTIS ?GRAN?THE BASILIQUE. When we were at length arrived in the beautiful city of Pesth, strange to say, though on our passage through it when travelling homeward from Constantinople in 1836 I carried away a delightful recollection of its ensemble, I was not in the slightest degree disappointed on a longer look. The contrast between the two shores, linked together by a bridge of boats upwards of twelve hundred feet in length, is peculiarly striking; on one side Imperial Buda, the original and ancient capital, spreads stern and still, clasping the dark heights with houses and convents, clothing their sides with habitations, and cresting them with lordly palaces and bristling fortresses: while right and left along the river bank stretch its long faubourgs, where you may distinguish at intervals an old Turkish tower, a remnant of the times when the Moslem held sway in the chief city of the Magyars, or a stately monastery, upon whose spire the cross now glitters in the sunlight, un- profaned by the vicinity of the crescent. There is a strange stillness about Buda; a sort of calm regality; and you ever find your thoughts flung back upon the past as you climb its abrupt acclivities, or wander among its giant-looking houses. But you have only to repass the bridge, and the present, the active, ambitious, energetic present is at once before you. Tall, handsome, Italian-seeming terraces face the river, from which they are only separated by a wide quay, the line occasionally broken by a noble portico, a stately freize, or the towers of a church; and all so fresh, so bright, and so indicative of gro...<

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