Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece. With observations on the present state and prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the climate, natural history and antiquities of the countries visited / By W.R. Wilde.

  • Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece. With observations on the present state and prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the climate, natural history and antiquities of the countries visited / By W.R. Wilde. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tween the accounts of Mr. Wilde and Laborde. The latter savs 4/ the light-house is situated ‘ upon a very high mountain, a league from the harbour;’” and I have stated its position to be about a mile to the S.W. of the town, on a rock by the water’s edge. Any one, however, at all acquainted with the locality knows that there is no such mountain in this vicinity as that described by Laborde, and the position of the Hercules tower can easily he ascertained by referring to any of the Admiralty’s charts of the coast; and moreover, a light on “a very high mountain, a league from the harbour,” would be of little service for nautical purposes. The same authority doubts the circumstance of the original Pharos being enclosed within the modern tower. Having, how¬ ever, communicated on this subject with the British consul at Corunna, I have just received the most confirmatory proof of the fact, in the two original drawings kindly forwarded to me by him, from which the accompanying illustrations have been made. That to the left represents the old Pharos as it stood in 1797, the date marked on the drawing, under which we find the follow-