Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... united by the Rio Negro and the Cassiquiare , a branch of the Orinoco ; it is a navigable * Coxcox bears also the denomination of Teo - Cipactli , in which the root god or divine is added to the name of the sign Cipactli . It is the man ...
... united by the Rio Negro and the Cassiquiare , a branch of the Orinoco ; it is a navigable * Coxcox bears also the denomination of Teo - Cipactli , in which the root god or divine is added to the name of the sign Cipactli . It is the man ...
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... united efforts of man cannot fail to have an influence on the general causes on which the climate of Guiana depends . According to the barometric height of San Fernando de Apure , I find from that town to the Boca de Navios the slope of ...
... united efforts of man cannot fail to have an influence on the general causes on which the climate of Guiana depends . According to the barometric height of San Fernando de Apure , I find from that town to the Boca de Navios the slope of ...
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... united + in a single channel extremely broad . This channel is near eight leagues long ; at its western extremity a second bifurcation appears ; and as the summit of the delta is in the northern branch of the bifurcated river , this ...
... united + in a single channel extremely broad . This channel is near eight leagues long ; at its western extremity a second bifurcation appears ; and as the summit of the delta is in the northern branch of the bifurcated river , this ...
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... united on a space of ground which is eight or nine leagues broad from north to south , and forty long from east to west . This direction , too , was always assigned to the White Sea , by lengthening it in the direction of the latitude ...
... united on a space of ground which is eight or nine leagues broad from north to south , and forty long from east to west . This direction , too , was always assigned to the White Sea , by lengthening it in the direction of the latitude ...
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... United States . After having long wandered with the Caribs , the desire of rejoining the Whites led him by the Rio Essequibo to the island of Trinidad . He made several excursions to Santa Fé de Bogotá , and at length settled at Carora ...
... United States . After having long wandered with the Caribs , the desire of rejoining the Whites led him by the Rio Essequibo to the island of Trinidad . He made several excursions to Santa Fé de Bogotá , and at length settled at Carora ...
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