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The afcent to the portico is by a flight of very long flcps.

Encyclopædia britannica; 1797

FuNCHAL, the capital of Madeira, fitu - ate round a bay, on the genilc afcent of the firft hills, in form of an amphitheati-e.

The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland 1797

They arc led through a ftreet of continual afcent, till they arrive at a gate on an eminence, called the Gate of Health, From thence they fee the great mofque which inclofes the Houfe of Abraham.

A Narrative of the Extraordinary Adventures, and Sufferings by Shipwreck & Imprisonment, of ... 1796

The finely broken mountains on the weft arc covered with heathy and the tops impend in crags and precipices; but their afcent from the water is lefs fudden than that of the oppofite rocks, and they are Ikirted by a narrow margin of vivid green, where cattle were feeding, and tufted uirvibs and little groves overhung the lake and were reflected on its dark furface.

A journey made in the summer of 1794, through Holland and the western frontier of Germany, with a return down the Rhine: to which are added, observation during a tour to the lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland 1795

Where it climbs the heights, the afcent is aided by large flights of fteps, fo that the pafTage along it is at once eafy, fecure, and uninter - rupted.

A narrative of the British embassy to China in the years 1792, 1793, and 1794; containing the various circumstances of the embassy, with accounts of customs and manners of the Chinese and a description of the country, towns, cities &c. &c Anderson, Aeneas 1795

Swale, on a confiderabe afcent, to the S. bury alul Goit - Water.

The universal gazetteer : being a concise description ... of the nations, kingdoms, states, towns ... &c. in the known world ; the government, manners, and religion of the inhabitants ... of the different countries. Illustrated with a complete set of maps 1795

But an afcent to the gods imparts a fmooth anc * ge Title, inftead of a hard und rough, and a voluntary ', inflead f a compelled life.

The Description of Greece 1794

The whole town ftands jupon an cafy afcent, which expofed moft of the houfes to the enemy's guns.

Derriana: A Collection of Papers Relative to the Siege of Derry, and Illustrative of the ... G. Douglas 1794

All the road from this temple of Diana to Anticyra is on the afcent.

The Description of Greece 1794

Hence he ranlacks this lower world in queft of felicity; climbs in fearch of it the flippery afcent of honour; hunts for it in the treafures of gold and filver; or plunges for it in the foul ftreams of fenfual plea - fures.

Sermons on important subjects, by the late Reverend and pious Samuel Davies, A.M., sometime President of the College in New-Jersey ... to which are now added, three occasional sermons ... memoirs and character of the author, and two sermons on occasion of his death, by the Rev. Drs. Gibbons and Finley 1794