Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... follows a constant type in the series of meteorological phenomena . Great rivers unite in one receptacle the waters which a surface to establish their aërial cloisters in the country of Treves , in Germany ; but the bishops opposed ...
... follows a constant type in the series of meteorological phenomena . Great rivers unite in one receptacle the waters which a surface to establish their aërial cloisters in the country of Treves , in Germany ; but the bishops opposed ...
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... follow annually the same progression , because their commencement and their duration depend also on the mean of the ... follows , that the periodical oscillations of rivers are , like the equality of temperature of caverns and springs ...
... follow annually the same progression , because their commencement and their duration depend also on the mean of the ... follows , that the periodical oscillations of rivers are , like the equality of temperature of caverns and springs ...
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... follow a peculiar type , most fre- quently opposite to that of the low regions . The law of the increase and decrease of the Orinoco is more difficult to determine with respect to space , or to the magnitude of the oscillations , than ...
... follow a peculiar type , most fre- quently opposite to that of the low regions . The law of the increase and decrease of the Orinoco is more difficult to determine with respect to space , or to the magnitude of the oscillations , than ...
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... follow their successive developments The discussion to which I shall devote the end of this chapter is important , not only because it throws light on the events of the Conquest , and that long series of disastrous expeditions made in ...
... follow their successive developments The discussion to which I shall devote the end of this chapter is important , not only because it throws light on the events of the Conquest , and that long series of disastrous expeditions made in ...
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... follow the course of the Rio Branco , or that strip of cultivated land which is dependent on the Capitania General of Grand Para , we see lakes , partly imaginary , and partly enlarged by geographers , forming two distinct groups . The ...
... follow the course of the Rio Branco , or that strip of cultivated land which is dependent on the Capitania General of Grand Para , we see lakes , partly imaginary , and partly enlarged by geographers , forming two distinct groups . The ...
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