Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America, during the years 1799-1804, by A. von Humboldt and A. Bonpland, Volume 2 |
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... Calabozo · • CHAPTER XVIII . San Fernando de Apure . - Intertwinings and Bifurcations of the Rivers Apure and Arauca . - Navigation on the Rio Apure CHAPTER XIX . Junction of the Apure and the Orinoco . - Mountains of Enca- ramada ...
... Calabozo · • CHAPTER XVIII . San Fernando de Apure . - Intertwinings and Bifurcations of the Rivers Apure and Arauca . - Navigation on the Rio Apure CHAPTER XIX . Junction of the Apure and the Orinoco . - Mountains of Enca- ramada ...
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... Calabozo , and one thousand three hundred and thirty - two feet above the level of the ocean , it has been suspected that there are subterranean communications and filtrations . The appearance of new islands , and the gradual retreat of ...
... Calabozo , and one thousand three hundred and thirty - two feet above the level of the ocean , it has been suspected that there are subterranean communications and filtrations . The appearance of new islands , and the gradual retreat of ...
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... Calabozo , which in the season of drought resemble the deserts of Africa . How advantageous it would have been had the Conquistadores , from the beginning of the sixteenth century , peopled America with camels , as they have peopled it ...
... Calabozo , which in the season of drought resemble the deserts of Africa . How advantageous it would have been had the Conquistadores , from the beginning of the sixteenth century , peopled America with camels , as they have peopled it ...
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... Calabozo . It is very extraordinary to see barren savannahs loaded with miasmata . No marshy ground is found there , but several phenomena indicate a The valley of Buria , and the little river of the same name , com . municate with the ...
... Calabozo . It is very extraordinary to see barren savannahs loaded with miasmata . No marshy ground is found there , but several phenomena indicate a The valley of Buria , and the little river of the same name , com . municate with the ...
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... Calabozo . THE chain of mountains , bordering the lake of Tacarigua towards the south , forms in some sort the northern shore of the great basin of the Llanos or savannahs of Caracas . To descend from the valleys of Aragua into these ...
... Calabozo . THE chain of mountains , bordering the lake of Tacarigua towards the south , forms in some sort the northern shore of the great basin of the Llanos or savannahs of Caracas . To descend from the valleys of Aragua into these ...
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Amazon America ancient Angostura animals appear Apure Aragua Atabapo Atures banks boat Bonpland Cabruta cacao Calabozo called Caño canoe Caracas Caribs Carichana cassava Cassiquiare cataracts coast colour contain Cordillera covered crocodiles cultivated curare earth east eggs electric Encaramada Esmeralda Europe Father feet fish forests fruit Gili gneiss granite Grenada grünstein Guaviare Guiana gymnotus hornblende humidity hundred Indians inhabitants insects island jaguar Javita Jesuits juice lake latitude leagues Llanos Lower Orinoco Mariara Maypures Meta mission missionary monkeys monks mosquitos mountains mouth nations natives night Nueva Valencia observed Omaguas Orinoco Ottomacs palm-trees passed plains plants Porto Cabello Raudal resembles Rio Negro rise river rocks San Fernando savannahs shore soil Spanish species spot steppes strata Tamanacs temperature toises torrid zone trees tribes tributary streams Upper Orinoco Uruana Valencia valleys of Aragua vegetation Ventuari village zancudos