Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... , and 2 Maps . Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Per- sonages of Great Britain , with Memoirs . Two Hundred and Forty Portraits , beau- tifully engraved on Steel . 8 vols ... BOHN'S SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY . HUMBOLDT'S PERSONAL NARRATIVE . VOL .
... , and 2 Maps . Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Per- sonages of Great Britain , with Memoirs . Two Hundred and Forty Portraits , beau- tifully engraved on Steel . 8 vols ... BOHN'S SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY . HUMBOLDT'S PERSONAL NARRATIVE . VOL .
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... hundred leagues ; it remains for me to make known the small space of three degrees fifty- two minutes of longitude ... hundred pounds weight of sago , or meal ( for the word sago signifies meal in the dialect of Amboyna ) . Mr. Crawford ...
... hundred leagues ; it remains for me to make known the small space of three degrees fifty- two minutes of longitude ... hundred pounds weight of sago , or meal ( for the word sago signifies meal in the dialect of Amboyna ) . Mr. Crawford ...
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... hundred toises high , Ceroxylon andicola , Oreodoxa frigida , Kunthia montana . This last group of palmæ montana , which rises in the Andes of Guanacas nearly to the limit of perpetual snow , was , I believe , entirely unknown before ...
... hundred toises high , Ceroxylon andicola , Oreodoxa frigida , Kunthia montana . This last group of palmæ montana , which rises in the Andes of Guanacas nearly to the limit of perpetual snow , was , I believe , entirely unknown before ...
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... hundred and fifty toises . * We may be surprised at the strength of the current in a slope so little perceptible ; but I shall remind the reader on this occasion , that , according to measurements made by order of Mr. Hastings , the ...
... hundred and fifty toises . * We may be surprised at the strength of the current in a slope so little perceptible ; but I shall remind the reader on this occasion , that , according to measurements made by order of Mr. Hastings , the ...
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... hundred and fifty years on the banks of the Orinoco ; and during this long period of time , accord- ing to a tradition which has been propagated from genera- tion to generation , the periodical oscillations of the river ( the time of ...
... hundred and fifty years on the banks of the Orinoco ; and during this long period of time , accord- ing to a tradition which has been propagated from genera- tion to generation , the periodical oscillations of the river ( the time of ...
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