Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... height of the risings , on the nature and variety of the productions on the 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 ...
... height of the risings , on the nature and variety of the productions on the 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 ...
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... torrid zone attain the greatest height nearly at the same period . The Ganges , the Niger , and the Gambia , reach the * Strabo , lib . 17 , p 789. Diod . Sic . , lib . 1 , c . 5 . 12 THE MEXICAN ZODIAC . maximum , like the Orinoco.
... torrid zone attain the greatest height nearly at the same period . The Ganges , the Niger , and the Gambia , reach the * Strabo , lib . 17 , p 789. Diod . Sic . , lib . 1 , c . 5 . 12 THE MEXICAN ZODIAC . maximum , like the Orinoco.
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... height at the end of the month of September . † t The river keeps at the same level till the middle of October ; and is at its minimum in April and May , a period when the rivers of Guiana begin to swell anew . It may be seen from this ...
... height at the end of the month of September . † t The river keeps at the same level till the middle of October ; and is at its minimum in April and May , a period when the rivers of Guiana begin to swell anew . It may be seen from this ...
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... height in March . * It sinks from the month of May , and is at its minimum of height in the months of July and August , at the time when the Lower Orinoco inundates all the surrounding land . As no river of America can cross the equator ...
... height in March . * It sinks from the month of May , and is at its minimum of height in the months of July and August , at the time when the Lower Orinoco inundates all the surrounding land . As no river of America can cross the equator ...
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... height and duration for thousands of years ; which is a proof , well worthy of attention , that the mean state of the humidity and the temperature does not vary in that vast basin . Will this constancy in physical phenomena , this ...
... height and duration for thousands of years ; which is a proof , well worthy of attention , that the mean state of the humidity and the temperature does not vary in that vast basin . Will this constancy in physical phenomena , this ...
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