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Mineralogical instuments.

Tags: Natural environment, Social sphere and everyday life, Tools

Stem and flower of plant of the genus Veronica , discovered by the author during his tour of Aemus Mons.

Tags: Balkan Mountains / Aemus Mons, Bulgaria, Greece, Mountains, Natural environment, Turkey

Burial mound at Develi, eastern Thrace.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Burial mounds, Develi, Funerary monuments, Natural environment, Thrace, Turkey

Landscape at Lake Volvi.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Fishing, Greece, Houses, Human types, Lake Volvi, Lakes, Macedonia, Mosques, Natural environment, Ottomans, Small Prespa Lake, Turks, Views

Landscape at Serres.

Tags: Animals, Equids, Greece, Horses, Human types, Macedonia, Natural environment, Serres, Travel, Views

The summits of Mount Olympus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Greece, Houses, Human types, Macedonia, Mount Olympus, Mountains, Natural environment, Views

Landscape at Platamon. In the background, Mount Olympus.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Bovids, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Macedonia, Mount Olympus, Mountains, Natural environment, Pieria, Platamon, Professions, Shepherds, Views

Mount Athos from the east.

Tags: Boats and ships, Greece, Macedonia, Mount Athos, Mountains, Natural environment, Views

Landscape at the vale of Tempi, Thessaly.

Tags: Greece, Natural environment, Pineios river, Rivers, Tempi, Thessaly, Vale of Tempi, Views

View of Mount Olympus, Thessaly.

Tags: Animals, Greece, Human types, Mount Olympus, Mountains, Natural environment, Professions, Sheep, Shepherds, Thessaly, Views

Ancient funerary monuments at Thermopylae.

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Equids, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Funerary monuments, Greece, Horses, Human types, Natural environment, Ottomans, Phthiotis, Thermopylae, Turks

View of Thermopylae from Mendenitsa. In the background, the Malian gulf.

Tags: Central Greece, Greece, Gulfs and bays, Maliac gulf, Mendenitsa, Mount Oeta, Mountains, Natural environment, Phocis, Phthiotis, Thermopylae, Views

The Castalian Spring in Delphi.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Castalian spring, Costume - Hats and headwear, Delphi, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Greece, Human types, Natural environment, Phocis, Views

View of Mount Parnassus from the northwest.

Tags: Animals, Camels, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Mount Parnassus, Mountains, Natural environment, Travel, Views

Interior of the Oracle of Trophonius in Livadeia.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boeotia, British, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Greece, Human types, Livadeia, Natural environment, Oracle of Trophonius (Livadeia), Ottomans, Turks, Views

Delphi, the highest summit of Mount Dirfi in Euboea, as seen from Mount Helicon.

Tags: Animals, Central Greece, Equids, Euboea, Greece, Human types, Mount Dirfi, Mount Helicon, Mountains, Natural environment, Views

View of Thebes from Plataeae.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boeotia, Central Greece, Greece, Houses, Natural environment, Thebes (Greece), Views

Ancient bulwark, possibly a tomb, near the gates of Thebes.

Tags: Boeotia, Central Greece, Greece, Natural environment, Thebes (Greece)

View of the plain of Marathon with the Tumulus of the Athenians.

Tags: Attica, Burial mounds, Central Greece, Greece, Human types, Marathon, Natural environment, Tumulus of Marathon, Views

View of the village of Marathon.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Houses, Marathon, Natural environment, Sheep, Views

View of Snake Island at the Black Sea. According to the myth, this is were Thetis took the bodies of Achilles and Patroclus.

Tags: Black Sea, Boats and ships, Greek mythology, Mythology, Natural environment, Snake Island / anc. Leuce, Ukraine, Views

View of Chatyr-Dan mountain range near Simferopol, Crimea.

Tags: Animals, Black Sea, Bovids, Chatyr-Dan, Human types, Mountains, Natural environment, Professions, Russia, Shepherds, Simferopol, Ukraine

Plant of the genus Salvia, Minth family.

Tags: Black Sea, Crimea, Mentha, Natural environment, Plants, Russia, Salvia, Ukraine

View of Cape Fiolent between Sebastopol and Balaklava, Crimea.

Tags: Black Sea, Boats and ships, Cape Fiolent, Crimea, Natural environment, Russia, Ukraine, Views

Ruins of Greek Orthodox monastery at Chatyr-Dan mountain range near Simferopol, Crimea.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Chatyr-Dan, Churches, Costume - Hats and headwear, Horses, Human types, Monasteries, Mountains, Natural environment, Rivers, Russia, Salhir river, Simferopol, Ukraine

Promontory near the monastery of Saint George at Chersonesus, Crimea.

Tags: Black Sea, Boats and ships, Chersonesus, Natural environment, Russia, Sebastopol, Ukraine

Insects of the Crimea.

Tags: Black Sea, Crimea, Insects, Natural environment, Russia, Spiders, Ukraine

View of Cimmerian Bosporus or Strait of Kerch withn the port of Kerch (anc. Panticapaeum), Crimea. In the background, the coast of Phanagoria, today Taman peninsula, Russia.

Tags: Black Sea, Costume - Hats and headwear, Ethnic groups, Europeans, Human types, Kerch / anc. Pantikapaion, Natural environment, Phanagoria, Ports, Russia, Taman, Ukraine, Views

View of the Cimmerian Bosporus or Strait of Kerch (where the Black Sea joins the Sea of Azov). On the bottom right, Taman volcano, surnamed Prekla (hell) by the locals.

Tags: Black Sea, Boats and ships, Crimea, Kerch Strait/ anc. Cimmerian Bosporus, Maps, Natural environment, Russia, Sea of Azov, Ukraine, Views, Volcanoes

Ancient tombs on Don river near the Black Sea, Russia.

Tags: Black Sea, Boats and ships, Burial mounds, Don river, Funerary monuments, Natural environment, Religious practices, Rivers, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Burial mounds in the Russian steppe.

Tags: Burial mounds, Funerary monuments, Natural environment, Russia, Steppe, Views

Snowflakes, which the author studied thoroughly during his journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow.

Tags: Natural environment, Plans and drawings, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Snow, Travel

Cobra snake.

Tags: Animals, Cobras, India, Natural environment, Reptiles

The deer from whose glands musk is extracted.

Tags: Animals, Deer, Human types, Hunters, Hunting, India, Natural environment, Persia / Iran, Social sphere and everyday life

1. Pearl belonging to the king of Persia. According to the author the pearl was bought from an Arab merchant of Katifa in 1633 for 32.000 toman. 2. Pearl belonging to the Mongol king of India. 3. Pearl sold by the author to the governor of Bengal, uncle of the Mongol king of India. 4. Pearls belonging to the Mongol king of India.

Tags: Bengal, Commerce, Economic activities, Gems, India, Kings, Mongols of India, Natural environment, Pearls, Persia / Iran, Persians, Shah, Social sphere and everyday life

1. Ruby bought by the uncle of the King of the Mongols in India for 90.000 rupees. The ruby was presented to the king on its birthday. 3,4. Rubies belonging to the king of Visapur, India. 5. Ruby belonging to affluent merchant from Varanasi, India. 6. Topaz belonging to the Mongol king of India.

Tags: Commerce, Diamonds, Gems, India, Kings, Mongols of India, Natural environment, Persia / Iran, Persians, Rubies, Shah, Social sphere and everyday life, Varanasi, Visapur

Types of rough and finished gemstones: diamonds and rubies.

Tags: Commerce, Diamonds, Economic activities, India, Natural environment, Persia / Iran, Precious stones, Rubies, Social sphere and everyday life

1. Diamond belonging to the Mongol king of India. 2. Diamond belonging to the Duke of Tuscany. 3. Rough diamond of 242 carats. The author states that this was the bigger diamond he ever saw at the hands of the merchants of India. 4. Rough diamond bought by the author at Ahmedabad, India. 5. Finished diamond. 6. Rough diamond bought by the author in India. 7,8. Rough and finished diamond, of a total weight of 104 carats. The diamonds were bought by an affluent Danish merchant in the presence of the author.

Tags: Ahmedabad, Commerce, Diamonds, Duke of Tuscany, Economic activities, Gems, India, Italians, Kings, Mongols of India, Natural environment, Social sphere and everyday life

The summit of Jungfrau at the Swiss Alps.

Tags: Alps, Mountains, Natural environment, Switzerland, Views

The fortress of Königstein at the town of Königstein, Saxony, Germany.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Carriages, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fortress of Königstein, Germany, Human types, Königstein, Medieval monuments, Modes of transport, Natural environment, Saxony, Sheep, Views, Women

Mount Tabor, Israel.

Tags: Human types, Israel, Mount Tabor, Natural environment, Religious practices, Views

Mount Carmel with the cave of the Prophets and the monastery of Carmel on its summit.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Israel, Monasteries, Mount Carmel, Natural environment, Views

Map of the port of Cythera (Kapsali) with the Venetian fortress.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Boats and ships, Castle of Cythera, Castles and fortresses, Cythera, Greece, Ionian islands, Kapsali, Natural environment, Ports, Venetian architecture, Venetian monuments, Views

View of Megara.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Attica, Castles and fortresses, Central Greece, Fortress of Megara, Greece, Houses, Megara, Natural environment, Views

Cape Tainaron.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Cape Tainaron, Castles and fortresses, Greece, Laconia, Mani, Natural environment, Peloponnese, Views

Table showing depth fluctuations of the Bosporus waters according to the seasons, as measured from an observation point at Galata.

Tags: Bosporus, Istanbul, Natural environment, Natural phenomena, Thrace, Turkey

The junction of the Bosporus and the Black Sea.

Tags: Asia Minor, Black Sea, Boats and ships, Bosporus, Houses, Human types, Istanbul, Lighthouses, Natural environment, Symplegades / Clashing Rocks / Cyanean Rocks, Thrace, Turkey, Views

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