The Mediterranean


A Compendious Geographical Dictionary containing a Description of Every Remarkable Place in Europe, African, Asia and America etc by B. P. Capper (1813):

The Mediterranean is the name of the sea between Asia, Africa and Europe communicating with the ocean by the Straits of Gibraltar and with the Black Sea by the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmora and the Straits of Constantinople. Its name signifying "Middle of the Earth" was given to it by the ancients who were then acquainted with little more than the surface of the globe than the regions which encompass it. The ancients called it the Hesperian Sea by reason of its western situation. The scriptures call it the Great Sea in opposition to the Sea of Galilee. It is parted from the Atlantic Ocean by the Straits of Gibraltar; and from the Propontis by the Dardanelles. It has Europe on the North , Africa on the South Asia on the West and the Straits of Gibraltar on the West. There is little or no tide perceptible in this sea saving at some few places on the shore of the continent. Between Negropont and Greece the tide flows regularly 12 times in 24 hours for a fortnight during every moon.

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Quotations
 Chapter 16 
The room was most dear to her, and she would not have changed its furniture for the handsomest in the house, though what had been originally plain had suffered all the ill–usage of children; and its greatest elegancies and ornaments were a faded footstool of Julia’s work, too ill done for the drawing–room, three transparencies, made in a rage for transparencies, for the three lower panes of one window, where Tintern Abbey held its station between a cave in Italy and a moonlight lake in Cumberland, a collection of family profiles, thought unworthy of being anywhere else, over the mantelpiece, and by their side, and pinned against the wall, a small sketch of a ship sent four years ago from the Mediterranean by William, with H.M.S. Antwerp at the bottom, in letters as tall as the mainmast.
 Chapter 24 
It was but the day before that Crawford had made himself thoroughly master of the subject, or had in fact become at all aware of her having such a brother, or his being in such a ship, but the interest then excited had been very properly lively, determining him on his return to town to apply for information as to the probable period of the Antwerp’s return from the Mediterranean, etc.;

He had been in the Mediterranean; in the West Indies; in the Mediterranean again; had been often taken on shore by the favour of his captain, and in the course of seven years had known every variety of danger which sea and war together could offer.

 

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