Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... maximum from February to May ; at its minimum in August and September . - Ellicott , Journal of an Expedition to the Ohio . The Apure itself has a slope of thirteen inches to the mile . 16 FIRST BRANCHES OF THE ORINOCO . been settled for.
... maximum from February to May ; at its minimum in August and September . - Ellicott , Journal of an Expedition to the Ohio . The Apure itself has a slope of thirteen inches to the mile . 16 FIRST BRANCHES OF THE ORINOCO . been settled for.
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... expeditions made in search of El Dorado , the last of which was in the year 1775 ; it also furnishes , in addition to this simply historical interest , another , more substantial and more generally felt , that of rectifying the ...
... expeditions made in search of El Dorado , the last of which was in the year 1775 ; it also furnishes , in addition to this simply historical interest , another , more substantial and more generally felt , that of rectifying the ...
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... expedition of Solano , and who states very clearly , from the testimony of the Indians , " how the name of the river ... expeditions undertaken for the discovery of El Dorado . When we have learnt to know the aspect of the country , our ...
... expedition of Solano , and who states very clearly , from the testimony of the Indians , " how the name of the river ... expeditions undertaken for the discovery of El Dorado . When we have learnt to know the aspect of the country , our ...
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... expeditions to El Do- rado . This is the Mesopotamia between the Caqueta , the Rio Negro , the Uaupes , and the Yurubesh , of which I have already given a particular account ; it is the Dorado of the Omaguas , which contains Lake Manoa ...
... expeditions to El Do- rado . This is the Mesopotamia between the Caqueta , the Rio Negro , the Uaupes , and the Yurubesh , of which I have already given a particular account ; it is the Dorado of the Omaguas , which contains Lake Manoa ...
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... expeditions were undertaken at the same time from Venezuela , New Grenada , Quito , Peru , and even from Brazil and the ... expedition of Huten is passed over in absolute silence by Herrera ( dec . 7 , lib . 10 , cap . vii , vol . iv , p ...
... expeditions were undertaken at the same time from Venezuela , New Grenada , Quito , Peru , and even from Brazil and the ... expedition of Huten is passed over in absolute silence by Herrera ( dec . 7 , lib . 10 , cap . vii , vol . iv , p ...
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