Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... is scarcely known in Europe , is only fifty leagues distant , south- east of the mouths of the Orinoco . It contains , according to Bolingbroke , nearly 10,000 inhabitants . H COAST SCENERY OF THE ORINOCO . products of the.
... is scarcely known in Europe , is only fifty leagues distant , south- east of the mouths of the Orinoco . It contains , according to Bolingbroke , nearly 10,000 inhabitants . H COAST SCENERY OF THE ORINOCO . products of the.
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... according to the distribution of the species : 1st , in dry places , or inland plains , Corypha tectorum ; 2nd , on the sea - coast , Chamaerops humilis , Cocos nucifera , Corypha maritima , Lodoicea seychellarum , Labill .; 3rd , in ...
... according to the distribution of the species : 1st , in dry places , or inland plains , Corypha tectorum ; 2nd , on the sea - coast , Chamaerops humilis , Cocos nucifera , Corypha maritima , Lodoicea seychellarum , Labill .; 3rd , in ...
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... according as the waters are high or low . The regularity of these periodical risings of the Orinoco has been long an object of admiration to travellers , as the overflowings of the Nile furnished the philosophers of antiquity with a ...
... according as the waters are high or low . The regularity of these periodical risings of the Orinoco has been long an object of admiration to travellers , as the overflowings of the Nile furnished the philosophers of antiquity with a ...
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... According to the commentator Germanicus , Deucalion was placed in Aquarius ; but the three signs of the Fishes , Aquarius , and Capricorn ( the Antelope - fish ) , were heretofore intimately linked together . The animal , which , after ...
... According to the commentator Germanicus , Deucalion was placed in Aquarius ; but the three signs of the Fishes , Aquarius , and Capricorn ( the Antelope - fish ) , were heretofore intimately linked together . The animal , which , after ...
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... according to the informa- tion which I obtained on its banks , is much less regular in the periods of its oscillations than the Orinoco ; it generally begins , however , to increase in December , and attains its maximum of height in ...
... according to the informa- tion which I obtained on its banks , is much less regular in the periods of its oscillations than the Orinoco ; it generally begins , however , to increase in December , and attains its maximum of height in ...
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