Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... banks of the 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 ...
... banks of the 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 ...
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... banks of the Orinoco and its tri- butary streams discourse continually on the dangers to which they are exposed . They have marked the manners of the crocodile , as the torero has studied the manners of the bull . When they are assailed ...
... banks of the Orinoco and its tri- butary streams discourse continually on the dangers to which they are exposed . They have marked the manners of the crocodile , as the torero has studied the manners of the bull . When they are assailed ...
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... banks of the rivers , on the less or greater activity of trade ; and , I may add , from what we know of the nations of Egypt , Meroë , and India , on the progress of civilization along the valleys of the rivers . CAUSE OF THE RIVER ...
... banks of the rivers , on the less or greater activity of trade ; and , I may add , from what we know of the nations of Egypt , Meroë , and India , on the progress of civilization along the valleys of the rivers . CAUSE OF THE RIVER ...
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... 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 March . * It sinks from the month of May , and is at 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 March . * It sinks from the month of May , and is at its ...
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... banks of the Orinoco ; and during this long period of time , accord- ing to a tradition which has been propagated ... bank of the brazo Imataca is cut by a labyrinth of little channels , into which the Rio Imataca and the Rio Aquire flow ...
... banks of the Orinoco ; and during this long period of time , accord- ing to a tradition which has been propagated ... bank of the brazo Imataca is cut by a labyrinth of little channels , into which the Rio Imataca and the Rio Aquire flow ...
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