Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Upper Orinoco and the Rio Negro . They appear to depend on a volcanic focus distant from that of the Caribbee Islands . We were told by the missionaries at Javita and San Fernando de Atabapo , that in 1798 violent earthquakes took place ...
... Upper Orinoco and the Rio Negro . They appear to depend on a volcanic focus distant from that of the Caribbee Islands . We were told by the missionaries at Javita and San Fernando de Atabapo , that in 1798 violent earthquakes took place ...
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... upper jaw . There is little probability that a country , in which a labyrinth of rivers without number brings every day new bands of crocodiles from the eastern back of the Andes , by the Meta and the Apure , toward the coast of Spanish ...
... upper jaw . There is little probability that a country , in which a labyrinth of rivers without number brings every day new bands of crocodiles from the eastern back of the Andes , by the Meta and the Apure , toward the coast of Spanish ...
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... Upper Orinoco and the Rio Negro , appeared to me to exceed 90 or 100 inches annually . Such of the natives , therefore , as have lived beneath the misty sky of the Esmeralda and the Atabapo , know , without the smallest notion of ...
... Upper Orinoco and the Rio Negro , appeared to me to exceed 90 or 100 inches annually . Such of the natives , therefore , as have lived beneath the misty sky of the Esmeralda and the Atabapo , know , without the smallest notion of ...
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... Upper Orinoco , the Atabapo , the Cassiquiare , and the Rio Negro . It results from these state- ments that nearly two - thirds of the population of a province of sixteen thousand eight hundred square leagues are found concentrated ...
... Upper Orinoco , the Atabapo , the Cassiquiare , and the Rio Negro . It results from these state- ments that nearly two - thirds of the population of a province of sixteen thousand eight hundred square leagues are found concentrated ...
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... Upper Orinoco . The forests become impenetrable only on advancing toward the south ; on the north are meadows intersected with woody hills . The most picturesque scenes lie near the falls of the Carony , and in that chain of moun- tains ...
... Upper Orinoco . The forests become impenetrable only on advancing toward the south ; on the north are meadows intersected with woody hills . The most picturesque scenes lie near the falls of the Carony , and in that chain of moun- tains ...
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