Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... five days . These mouths being placed to windward of all the islands , the vessels of Angos- tura can maintain a more advantageous commerce with the West Indies than La Guayra and Porto Cabello . The mer- chants of Caracas , therefore ...
... five days . These mouths being placed to windward of all the islands , the vessels of Angos- tura can maintain a more advantageous commerce with the West Indies than La Guayra and Porto Cabello . The mer- chants of Caracas , therefore ...
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... five hundred leagues ; it remains for me to make known the small space of three degrees fifty- two minutes of ... five sago - trees , which would yield one hundred and twenty thousand five hundred pounds avoirdupois of fecula , or more ...
... five hundred leagues ; it remains for me to make known the small space of three degrees fifty- two minutes of ... five sago - trees , which would yield one hundred and twenty thousand five hundred pounds avoirdupois of fecula , or more ...
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... native of Syria . He passed thirty - seven years in mystic contemplation , on five pillars , the last of which was thirty - six cubits high . The sancti columnares attempted ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA . 9 another place that the mauritia palm.
... native of Syria . He passed thirty - seven years in mystic contemplation , on five pillars , the last of which was thirty - six cubits high . The sancti columnares attempted ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA . 9 another place that the mauritia palm.
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... five or six degrees nearer to the equator than those of the Nile . Observing every day the accidental variations of the atmosphere , we find it difficult to persuade ourselves , that in a great space of time the effects of these ...
... five or six degrees nearer to the equator than those of the Nile . Observing every day the accidental variations of the atmosphere , we find it difficult to persuade ourselves , that in a great space of time the effects of these ...
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... five years the Orinoco rises three feet higher than common ; but the idea of this cycle does not rest on any precise measures . We know by the testimony of antiquity , that the oscillations of the Nile have been sensibly the same with ...
... five years the Orinoco rises three feet higher than common ; but the idea of this cycle does not rest on any precise measures . We know by the testimony of antiquity , that the oscillations of the Nile have been sensibly the same with ...
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Amazon amphibolic ancient Angostura appears Apure arrobas auriferous banks basin Batabano branches Brazil Cape Caracas Caribs Caripe Carony Carthagena Cayo Cerro coast colonies contains Cordillera cultivation Cumana Cumanacoa Cundinamarca direction Dorado east eastern Essequibo Europe extend formations gneiss gold granite Grenada Guiana gulf Havannah height Indians inhabitants island of Cuba isthmus Jura limestone kilogrammes knot Laguna lake land latitude limestone Llanos Lower Orinoco Magdalena maps Mariara meridian Mexico mica-slate mountains mouth nations natives northern Nueva Barcelona observed Omaguas Orinoco palm-tree parallel peninsula of Araya Peru piastres plains population port province Punta Quito Raleigh region ridge Rio Branco Rio Negro rise river rocks sandstone Santa shore Sierra Parime slaves soil South America southern Spaniards Spanish square leagues strata sugar summits surface table-land tertiary tion toises toises high town trachyte tributary streams Trinidad valley Venezuela volcanic vols voyage West Indies western
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