 In the midst of so arid a country, the water-melon, the most juicy of fruits, is found in profusion. It is really a subject of wonder to see melons three or four feet in circumference, growing from a stalk as slender as that of the common melon, in the...  Travels in South-Western Asia - Pagina 1561823 - 180 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.) - 1815 - 744 pagina’s
...juicy of fruits, is found in profusion. It is really a subject of wonder to see melons three or four feet in circumference, growing from a stalk as slender as that of the common melon, in the dry sand of the desart. They are sown, and perhaps require some cultivation,... | |
 | Ichabod Nichols - 1829 - 198 pagina’s
...of western Africa ; and adds, "that it is really a subject of wonder to see a melon, three or four feet in circumference, growing from a stalk, as slender...of a common melon, in the dry sand of the desert." Mr. Barrow thus describes the curious vegetable, the pitcher plant. " To the foot stalk of each le;;f... | |
 | 1829 - 260 pagina’s
...deserts of western Asia; and adds, " that it is really a subject of wonder to see a melon, three or four feet in circumference, growing from a stalk as slender...of a common melon, in the dry sand of the desert." Mr. Barrow thus describes that curious vegetable, the pitcher plant:—".To the foot stalk of each... | |
 | 1832 - 586 pagina’s
...most juicy of fruits, is found in profusion. Indeed, it was impossible to see melons, three and four feet in circumference, growing from a stalk as slender...sand of the desert, without admiring the goodness of Providence; for many a traveller, obliged to cross these plains, and having no camel to expedite his... | |
 | 1832 - 858 pagina’s
...really a subject of wonder to see a melon, three or four feet in circumference growing from a stock as slender as that of a common melon, in the dry sand of the desert." "Mr. Barrow thus describes that curious vegetable, the pitcher plant : — ' To the foot stalk of each... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1838 - 480 pagina’s
...most juicy of fruits, is found in profusion. It is a subject of wonder to see melons three or four feet in circumference, growing from a stalk as slender as that of the common melon, in the dry sand of the desert. They are sown, and perhaps require some cultivation,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 pagina’s
...profusion. ' It is really,' says Mr. Elphinstone, ' a subject of wonder to see melons three or four feet in circumference, growing from a stalk as slender as that of the common melon, in the dry sand of the desert.' — (p. 6.) The miserable inhabitants of these hovels... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - 1842 - 472 pagina’s
...juicy of fruits, is found in profusion. It is really a subject of wonder to see melons three or four feet in circumference, growing from a stalk as slender as that of the common melon, in the dry sand of the desart. They are sown, and perhaps require some cultivation,... | |
 | Edward Thornton - 1857 - 1036 pagina’s
...juicy of fruits, is found in profusion. It is really a subject of wonder to see melons three or four feet in circumference growing from a stalk as slender...of a common melon, in the dry sand of the desert. They are sown, and perhaps require some cultivation, but they are scattered about, to all appearance,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 492 pagina’s
...most juicy of fruits, is found in profusion. It is a subject of wondei' to see melons three or four feet in circumference, growing from a stalk as slender as that of the common melon, in the dry sand of the desert. They are sown, and perhaps require some cultivation,... | |
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