Travels Around the World (page 2/3)

ront Cover

The front cover is a reddish brown with a gold design in the middle that includes laurel leaves and a globe, with the words, “W. H. SEWARD’S TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD”, all in gold. [more...] [$]

Frontispiece: Portrait of William H. Seward

William H. Seward (1801 – 1872) was Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869; after he retired he began writing an account of his travels, but after he died his wife Olive Risley Steward took over. [more...] [$]

Little Orphan Island

Two hundred and fifty miles above nanking, the [Yang-tse-kiang] river flows swiftly through a narrow gorge between two mountains, one called the Eastern, the other the Western Pillar. Above this strait the river winds, and is flanked on the right bank by bluffs like those of the Mississippi and Missouri; a hundred miles higher, another gorge; near [...] [more...] [$]

Entrance to the Cave of the Elephanta

We ascended an easy flight of stone steps to a plateau one hundred and fifty feet above the sea. [...] Passing to the centre of the plateau and turning to the right, we confronted a work of human art, gigantic and marvelous. It is a subterranean temple. the builders, beginning half-way up the mountain declivity, and cutting down perpendicularly, [...] [more...] [$]

A Street in Cairo
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Cairo, from the East

We see spread before us as far as the eye can see a city of dense buildings, mostly low, perhaps one to five storeys, but with towers, domes, minarets interspersed, and in the foreground a ruined tower from the city [...] [more...] [$]

Temple of Dendera

It is more modern and better preserved, though less interesting, than the Memnonium. Its construction was begun by one of the Ptolemies, two hundred and fifty years before the Christian era, and was completed under the Emperor Tiberius, while our Saviour was yet living in jerusalem. Some of its decorations were added in the reign of Nero. It has [...] [more...] [$]