Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Cordilleras of New Grenada , near which the western tribu- tary streams of the Orinoco , the Guaviare , the Meta , and the Apure , take their rise , enter no more into the limit of perpetual snows , with the sole exception of the ...
... Cordilleras of New Grenada , near which the western tribu- tary streams of the Orinoco , the Guaviare , the Meta , and the Apure , take their rise , enter no more into the limit of perpetual snows , with the sole exception of the ...
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... Cordillera of the Andes , where the seasons , as every- where among mountains , follow a peculiar type , most fre- quently opposite to that of the low regions . The law of the increase and decrease of the Orinoco is more difficult to ...
... Cordillera of the Andes , where the seasons , as every- where among mountains , follow a peculiar type , most fre- quently opposite to that of the low regions . The law of the increase and decrease of the Orinoco is more difficult to ...
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... English Guiana , or the colony of Essequibo ; and toward the south , in going up the desert banks of the Paragua and the Paraguamasi , and crossing the Cordillera of Pacaraimo , 20 INDIAN TRIBES . . they touch the Portuguese settlements c ...
... English Guiana , or the colony of Essequibo ; and toward the south , in going up the desert banks of the Paragua and the Paraguamasi , and crossing the Cordillera of Pacaraimo , 20 INDIAN TRIBES . . they touch the Portuguese settlements c ...
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... Cordillera of the Andes , equally celebrated in the expeditions to El Do- rado . This is the Mesopotamia between the Caqueta , the Rio Negro , the Uaupes , and the Yurubesh , of which I have already given a particular account ; it is ...
... Cordillera of the Andes , equally celebrated in the expeditions to El Do- rado . This is the Mesopotamia between the Caqueta , the Rio Negro , the Uaupes , and the Yurubesh , of which I have already given a particular account ; it is ...
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... Cordillera , that of Pacaraimo , Quimiropaca , and Ucucuamo ; which , stretching from east to south - west , unites the group of mountains of Parima to the mountains of Dutch and French Guiana . It divides its waters be- tween the ...
... Cordillera , that of Pacaraimo , Quimiropaca , and Ucucuamo ; which , stretching from east to south - west , unites the group of mountains of Parima to the mountains of Dutch and French Guiana . It divides its waters be- tween the ...
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