 | 1845 - 716 pagina’s
...gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossom'd many an incense-hearing tree, in any place, he caused it to be dug up with all its roots and the earth about them, just as Sir Henry Steuart has since proceeded, and whatever were its size and weight, caused it to... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 422 pagina’s
...Kublai Khan covered an artificial hill with full-grown trees, removing them on the backs of elephants. " Not far from the palace, on the northern side, and...means of elephants to this mount, and adds it to the verdant collection f." What an oriental despot accomplished, with the most profuse ex* Travels, iv.... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 434 pagina’s
...Kublai Khan covered an artificial hill with full-grown trees, removing them on the backs of elephants. " Not far from the palace, on the northern side, and...means of elephants to this mount, and adds it to the verdant collection f." What an oriental despot accomplished, with the most profuse ex* Travels, iv.... | |
 | Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff - 1834 - 466 pagina’s
...he dispatches business with convenience. Near the wall of the palace there is an artificial mount ; it is clothed with the most beautiful evergreen trees...about them ; and however large and heavy it may be, he causes it to be transported, by means of elephants, to this mount, and adds it to the verdant collection.... | |
 | 1844 - 312 pagina’s
...distance from the surrounding wall, is an artificial mound of earth, the height of which is full a hundred paces, and the circuit at the base about a...them, and, however large and heavy it may be, he has • Travels, iv., 245. it transported by means of elephants to this mount, and adds it to the verdant... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 pagina’s
...is covered with the most beautiful evergreen trees, for, whenever his majesty hears of a rare tree in any place, he causes it to be dug up, with all its roots and the earth about them, and transported by elephants to this mount. On the summit is an ornamented pavilion, and the prospect of... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1847 - 434 pagina’s
...for whenever the khan received information that a handsome tree was growing in any place, he caused it to be dug up with all its roots and the earth about them, just as Sir Henry Stuart has since proceeded, and whatever were its size and weight, caused it to be... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1854 - 548 pagina’s
...distance from the surrounding wall, is an artificial mount of earth, the height of which is full a hundred paces, and the circuit at the base about a...means of elephants to this mount, and adds it to the verdant collection. From this perpetual verdure it has acquired the appellation of the Green Mount.... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1854 - 544 pagina’s
...distance from the surrounding wall, is an artificial mount of earth, the height of which is full a hundred paces, and the circuit at the base about a...means of elephants to this mount, and adds it to the verdant collection. From this perpetual verdure it has acquired the appellation of the Green Mount.... | |
 | Charles Henry Eden - 1877 - 430 pagina’s
...distance from the surrounding wall, is an artificial mount of earth, the height of which is full a hundred paces, and the circuit at the base about a...means of elephants to this mount, and adds it to the verdant collection. From this perpetual verdure it has acquired the appellation of the Green Mount.... | |
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... hundred paces, and the circuit at the base about a mile. It is clothed with the most beautiful evergreen trees; for whenever his majesty receives information of a handsome tree growing in any place, he causes it to be dug up, with all its roots and... 
