Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Formation of Languages . Smyth's ( Professor ) Lectures on Modern History . In 2 vols . Lectures on the French Re- volution . In 2 vols . Sturm's Morning Communings with God , or Devotional Meditations for Every Day in the Year ...
... Formation of Languages . Smyth's ( Professor ) Lectures on Modern History . In 2 vols . Lectures on the French Re- volution . In 2 vols . Sturm's Morning Communings with God , or Devotional Meditations for Every Day in the Year ...
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... formation is pretty generally destitute of gold - ore , we cannot thence conclude that the granite of Parima contains no vein , no stratum of auriferous quartz . On the east of the Cassiquiare , towards the sources of the Orinoco , we ...
... formation is pretty generally destitute of gold - ore , we cannot thence conclude that the granite of Parima contains no vein , no stratum of auriferous quartz . On the east of the Cassiquiare , towards the sources of the Orinoco , we ...
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... formation of madrepore breccia , which the negroes call " God's masonry , " and which , like the travertin of Italy , envelops fragments of vases and other objects created by human skill . M. Dauxion Lavaysse and Dr. Koenig first made ...
... formation of madrepore breccia , which the negroes call " God's masonry , " and which , like the travertin of Italy , envelops fragments of vases and other objects created by human skill . M. Dauxion Lavaysse and Dr. Koenig first made ...
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... formation as the gypsum of Ortiz . To class it according to the type of European formations , I would range it among the gyp- sums , often muriatiferous , that cover the Alpine limestone or zechstein . Farther north , in the direction ...
... formation as the gypsum of Ortiz . To class it according to the type of European formations , I would range it among the gyp- sums , often muriatiferous , that cover the Alpine limestone or zechstein . Farther north , in the direction ...
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... formation as the sandstone of the Impossible and the Tumiriquiri ? The temperature of the thermal waters is only 43.2 ° cent . ( the atmosphere being 27 ° ) . They flow first to the distance . of forty toises over the rocky surface of ...
... formation as the sandstone of the Impossible and the Tumiriquiri ? The temperature of the thermal waters is only 43.2 ° cent . ( the atmosphere being 27 ° ) . They flow first to the distance . of forty toises over the rocky surface of ...
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