See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

WILLIAM See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE See also:

• BROWNE
• BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
• BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
• BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
• BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
• BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
• BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
• BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
• BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
• BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
• WILLIAM GEORGE BROWNE (1768-1813)

BROWNE (1768-1813)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English traveller, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• GREAT

Great See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

Tower See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

Hill, See also:

• LONDON

London, on the 25th of See also:

• JULY

July 1768, At seventeen he was sent to See also:

• ORIEL
• ORIEL, JOHN FOSTER, BARON (1740-1828)

Oriel See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford . Having had a moderate competence See also:

• LEFT

left him by his See also:

• FATHER

father, on quitting the university he applied himself entirely to See also:

• LITERARY

literary pursuits . But the fame of See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James See also:

• BRUCE
• BRUCE, ALEXANDER BALMAIN (1831-1899)
• BRUCE, JAMES (1930-1794)
• BRUCE, MICHAEL (1746-1767)

Bruce's travels, and of the first discoveries made by the See also:

• AFRICAN

African Association, determined him to become an explorer of Central See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa . He went first to See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt, arriving at See also:

• ALEXANDRIA
• ALEXANDRIA (Arab. Iskenderia)

Alexandria in See also:

• JANUARY

January 1792 . He spent some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time in visiting the See also:

• OASIS (Gr. &toss, the name given by Herodotus to the fertile spots in the Libyan desert: it probably represents an Egyptian word, cf. Coptic ouahe, ouih, to dwell, from which the Egyptian Arabic sod is derived)

oasis of See also:

• SIWA

Siwa or See also:

• JUPITER

Jupiter See also:

• AMMON
• AMMON, CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1766—185o)

Ammon, and employed the See also:

• REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder of the See also:

• YEAR

year in studying Arabic and in examining the ruins of See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient Egypt . In the See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring of 1793 he visited See also:

• SINAI

Sinai, and in May set out for See also:

• DARFUR

Darfur, joining the great See also:

• CARAVAN (more correctly Karwan)

caravan which every year went by the See also:

• DESERT

desert route from Egypt to that See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . This was his most important See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey, in which he acquired a great variety of See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information . He was forcibly detained by the See also:

• SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

sultan of Darfur and endured much hardship, being unable to effect his purpose of returning by See also:

• ABYSSINIA (officially ETHIOPIA)

Abyssinia . He was, however, allowed to return to Egypt with the caravan in 1796; after this he spent a year in See also:

• SYRIA

Syria, and did not arrive in London till See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1798 . In 1799 he published his Travels in Africa, Egypt and Syria, from the year 1792 to 1998 . The See also:

• WORK

work was full of valuable information; but, from the abruptness and dryness of the See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, it never became popular . In 1800 See also:

• BROWNE
• BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
• BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
• BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
• BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
• BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
• BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
• BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
• BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
• BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
• BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)

Browne again left See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, and spent three years in visiting See also:

• GREECE

Greece, some parts of See also:

• ASIA

Asia See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor and See also:

• SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily .

In 1812 he once more set out for the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East, proposing to penetrate to See also:

• SAMARKAND

Samarkand and survey the most interesting regions of central Asia . He spent the See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter in See also:

• SMYRNA (Ismir)

Smyrna, and in the spring of 1813 travelled through Asia Minor and See also:

• ARMENIA (old Persian Armina, Armenian Hayasdan, or Hayq)

Armenia, made a See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short stay at See also:

• ERZERUM, or ARZRUM (Arm. Garin)

Erzerum; and arrived on the 1st of See also:

• JUNE

June at See also:

• TABRIZ

Tabriz . About the end of the summer of 1813 he left Tabriz for See also:

• TEHERAN
• TEHERAN (more properly TEHRAN)

Teheran, intending to proceed thence into Tartary, but was shortly afterwards murdered . Some bones, believed to be his, were afterwards found and interred near the See also:

• GRAVE

grave of See also:

• JEAN

Jean de Thevenot, the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French traveller . See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• WALPOLE, HORATIO
• WALPOLE, SIR SPENCER (1839-1907)

Walpole published, in the second See also:

• VOLUME

volume of his See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs See also:

• RELATING

relating to See also:

• EUROPEAN

European and See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic See also:

• TURKEY

Turkey (1820), from papers left by Browne, the See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his journey in 1802 through Asia Minor to See also:

• ANTIOCH

Antioch and See also:

• CYPRUS
• CYPRUS, CHURCH OF

Cyprus; also Remarks written at See also:

• CONSTANTINOPLE
• CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

Constantinople (1802) .