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See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
BELL, See also:JOHN (1691-178o) , Scottish traveller, was See also:born at Antermony in See also:Scotland in 1691, and educated for the medical profession, in which he took the degree of M.D. In 1714 he set out for St See also:Petersburg, where, through the introduction of a countryman, he was nominated medical attendant to Valensky, recently appointed to the See also:Persian See also:embassy, with whom he travelled from 1715 to 1718. The next four years he spent in an embassy to See also:China, passing through See also:Siberia and the See also:great Tatar deserts. He had scarcely rested from this last See also:journey when he was summoned to attend See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter the Great in his perilous expedition to Derbend and the See also:Caspian See also:Gates. The narrative of this journey he enriched with interesting particulars of the public and private See also:life of that remarkable' See also:prince. In 1738 he was sent by the See also:Russian See also:government on a See also:mission to'See also:Constantinople, to which, accompanied by a single attendant who spoke See also:Turkish, he proceeded in the midst of See also:winter and all the horrors of See also:war, returning in May to St Petersburg. It appears that after this he was for several years established as a See also:merchant at Constantinople, where he married in 1746. In the following See also:year he retired to his See also:estate of Antermony, where he spent the See also:remainder of his life. He died in 1780. His travels, published at See also:Glasgow in 1763, were speedily translated into See also:French, and widely circulated in See also:Europe.
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