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The Arab dictionary of Freytag confirms M. Duveyrier's etymology, the author thus describing Ghadames "Nomen oppidi in Africa, unde pelles gudsamiticae appellatae sunt." Whatever its origin, we find the fabrication of these guadamaciles very flourishing at Cordova in the sixteenth century.
You can watch the sun setting in splendour over Worthing, or illuminating with its rising glories the ups and downs of Rottingdean. You see the citizen with his family inveigled into the shallops of the mercenary native mariner, and fancy that the motion cannot be pleasant; and how the hirer of the boat, otium et oppidi laudat rura sui, haply sighs for ease, and prefers Richmond or Hampstead.
Cardan seems to have been astonished at the wealth of precious stones he found in Scotland dark blue stones, diamonds, and carbuncles "maxime juxta academiam Glaguensis oppidi in Gludisdalia regione," and he casts about to explain how it is that England produces nothing of the kind, but only silver and lead.
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