Mediterranean seaports and sea routes including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia : handbook for travellers / by Karl Baedeker.
- Karl Baedeker
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Mediterranean seaports and sea routes including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia : handbook for travellers / by Karl Baedeker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![BIBLIOGRAPHY. s., d. = pound sterling, shilling, pence, y. = guinea, mej. = mejidieh. p., c. = peseta, centimo. pias., mill. = piastre, millieme. s. pias. = silver piastre. rs. = reis (plur. of real; comp. p. (i). roub., cop. = rouble, copeck. comp. = compare. adm. = admission, admittance. Asterisks (*) denote objects of special interest and hotels that arc believed to be ■worthy of special commendation. The number of ft. (1 Engl. ft. = 0.3048 metre; 1 mfetre = 3-281 hngl f or about 3 ft. 31/3 in.) given after the name of a place sho-vss its height numlir of M. (1 Engl, mile = 1.0093 kilomfetres; 1 kilometre^ 0.021-1 M.) placed before the principal places of a route indicates then distance from the starting-point of the route. International Hotel Telegraphic Code. I'he international association of hotel-keepers has agreed on the follo\y- ing code: Alba, room with single bed; alhaduo, room with double bed; itnd>. room with two beds; ahec, room with three beds; helab, two room.s and two beds; binfC. two rooms and three beds; bonaif, tw'o rooms and four bods; ciroc, three rooms and throe beds; ccirid, three roonis and tour beds; cnldp. three rooms and tivebeds; cadiif, three rooms and six beds; candy, three, rooms and seven beds; dariid, four rooms and four beds; dalme, four rooms and live beds; dunof, four rooms and six beds; dnlaji, four rooms and seven beds; dirich, four rooms and eight beds; dtirbi, four rooms and nine beds; kind, child’s bed; sal, saloon, pii\ate sitting- room: bat. jirivate bathroom; serv, servant’s room. The class of room may bo indicated by be.st, b07i, or plain. Day and hour of arrival must be notitied (gran}nati» is midnight to 7 a.m., VKdin is 7-12, sera 12-7, and yran.ncra 7 to midnight), and also duration of stay (pets? means 0110 night, stop means several days, but is not binding). Kame and addre.ss of apjilicant must be given; if prevented from coming, ‘cancel’, with his signature, suffices. Bibliography. ‘Mediterranean Winter Resorts’ by E. Rcynulds-Ball (bth ed., London. 11)08; ])rico (l.s.) although far from exhaustive, contains much useful and practical information. The art of the Orient is admirably treated of in the ‘Manuel d’.Srt Musulmaii’ by II. Saladin and G. Migeon (Paris, 1907; 30 fr.). Among excellent Oerman books are Theoh. Fischer’s ‘Mittelmeer- bilder’ (2 vols., Leipzig, 190(!, 1908; each (i marks), and A. Philippson’s ‘Mittelmeergcbiet’ (Leipzig, 1907; 7 marks). Hooks on Algeria, see p. 175; on Athens, see ji. 508; on Cairo, see p. Ml; on the Canary Islands, see p. 32; on Carthage, see p. 343; on Constantinople, see ]). 542; on Cordova, see ]). 09; on Oranada and the Alhambra, see pp. 75. 80; on Jerusalem, sec p. 173; 011 Madeira, sec p. 20; on Morocco, see pp. 97, 98; on Seville, see p. 01; on Tehessa, seep. 315; on Timgad, see p. 289; on Tunisia, see p. 325.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29011176_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
