Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Orinoco was agitated as far as the Raudales of Atures and Maypures . South of these Raudales shocks are sometimes felt , which are confined to the basin of the Upper Orinoco and the Rio Negro . They appear to depend on a volcanic focus ...
... Orinoco was agitated as far as the Raudales of Atures and Maypures . South of these Raudales shocks are sometimes felt , which are confined to the basin of the Upper Orinoco and the Rio Negro . They appear to depend on a volcanic focus ...
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... Orinoco have an advantage over every other part in Terra Firma . They afford the most prompt communications with the ... Orinoco . It contains , according to Bolingbroke , nearly 10,000 inhabitants . H COAST SCENERY OF THE ORINOCO ...
... Orinoco have an advantage over every other part in Terra Firma . They afford the most prompt communications with the ... Orinoco . It contains , according to Bolingbroke , nearly 10,000 inhabitants . H COAST SCENERY OF THE ORINOCO ...
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... Orinoco . Exact knowledge of the delta , and the course of the Rio Carony , is at once interest- ing to hydrography and to European commerce . When a vessel coming from sea would enter the prin- cipal mouth of the Orinoco , the Boca de ...
... Orinoco . Exact knowledge of the delta , and the course of the Rio Carony , is at once interest- ing to hydrography and to European commerce . When a vessel coming from sea would enter the prin- cipal mouth of the Orinoco , the Boca de ...
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... Orinoco . * In the season of inundations these clumps of mauritia , with their leaves in the form of a fan , have the appearance of a forest rising from the bosom of the waters . The navigator , in proceeding along the channels of the ...
... Orinoco . * In the season of inundations these clumps of mauritia , with their leaves in the form of a fan , have the appearance of a forest rising from the bosom of the waters . The navigator , in proceeding along the channels of the ...
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... Orinoco , but that its shelly fruit , its farinaceous pith , its juice , abounding in sac- charine matter , and the fibres of its petioles , furnish them with food , wine , * and thread proper for making cords and weaving hammocks ...
... Orinoco , but that its shelly fruit , its farinaceous pith , its juice , abounding in sac- charine matter , and the fibres of its petioles , furnish them with food , wine , * and thread proper for making cords and weaving hammocks ...
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Amazon amphibolic ancient Angostura appears Apure arrobas auriferous banks basin Batabano branches Brazil Cape Caracas Caribs Caripe Carony Carthagena Cayo Cerro coast colonies contains Cordillera cultivation Cumana Cumanacoa Cundinamarca direction Dorado east eastern Essequibo Europe extend formations geological gneiss gold granite Grenada Guiana gulf Havannah height Indians inhabitants island of Cuba isthmus Jura limestone kilogrammes knot Laguna lake land latitude limestone Llanos Lower Orinoco Magdalena maps Mariara meridian Mexico mica-slate mountains mouth nations natives northern Nueva Barcelona observed Omaguas Orinoco palm-tree parallel peninsula of Araya Peru piastres plains population port province Punta Quito Raleigh region ridge Rio Branco Rio Negro rise river rocks sandstone Santa shore Sierra Parime slaves soil South America southern Spain Spaniards Spanish square leagues strata sugar summits surface table-land tertiary tion toises toises high town trachyte tributary streams Trinidad valley Venezuela volcanic vols voyage western
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