Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Caracas . Since the end of the sixteenth century three towns have successively borne the name of St. Thomas of Guiana . The first was situated opposite to the island of Faxardo , at the confluence of the Carony and the Orinoco , and was ...
... Caracas . Since the end of the sixteenth century three towns have successively borne the name of St. Thomas of Guiana . The first was situated opposite to the island of Faxardo , at the confluence of the Carony and the Orinoco , and was ...
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... Caracas , therefore , have been always jealous of the progress of industry in Spanish Guiana ; and Caracas having been hitherto the seat of the supreme government , the port of Angostura has been treated with still less favour than the ...
... Caracas , therefore , have been always jealous of the progress of industry in Spanish Guiana ; and Caracas having been hitherto the seat of the supreme government , the port of Angostura has been treated with still less favour than the ...
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... Caracas , fixes it at thirteen fathoms . The heights naturally vary according to the breadth of the bed and the number of tributary streams which the principal trunk receives . The people believe that every five years the Orinoco rises ...
... Caracas , fixes it at thirteen fathoms . The heights naturally vary according to the breadth of the bed and the number of tributary streams which the principal trunk receives . The people believe that every five years the Orinoco rises ...
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... Caracas only on account of the facility it furnished to an illicit trade ; but since Berbice , Demerara , and Essequibo , have fallen into the hands of a more powerful neighbour , it fixes the atten- tion of the Spanish Americans as ...
... Caracas only on account of the facility it furnished to an illicit trade ; but since Berbice , Demerara , and Essequibo , have fallen into the hands of a more powerful neighbour , it fixes the atten- tion of the Spanish Americans as ...
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... Caracas and that of English Guiana . The two great branches of the Orinoco , the Zacupana and the Imataca , remain separate for fourteen leagues : on going up farther , the waters of the river are found unitedt in a single channel ...
... Caracas and that of English Guiana . The two great branches of the Orinoco , the Zacupana and the Imataca , remain separate for fourteen leagues : on going up farther , the waters of the river are found unitedt in a single channel ...
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