Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... inhabitants have but little dread of earthquakes . But unhappily this security is not founded on induction from any precise data . It is true , that the shore of Nueva Andalusia sometimes undergoes very violent shocks , without the ...
... inhabitants have but little dread of earthquakes . But unhappily this security is not founded on induction from any precise data . It is true , that the shore of Nueva Andalusia sometimes undergoes very violent shocks , without the ...
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... inhabitants of Angostura witnessed this melancholy spec- tacle . The crocodile , owing to the structure of its larynx , of the hyoïdal bone , and of the folds of its tongue , can seize , though not swallow , its prey under water ; thus ...
... inhabitants of Angostura witnessed this melancholy spec- tacle . The crocodile , owing to the structure of its larynx , of the hyoïdal bone , and of the folds of its tongue , can seize , though not swallow , its prey under water ; thus ...
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... inhabitants of the banks of the Orinoco and its tri- butary streams discourse continually on the dangers to which they are exposed . They have marked the manners of the crocodile , as the torero has studied the manners of the bull ...
... inhabitants of the banks of the Orinoco and its tri- butary streams discourse continually on the dangers to which they are exposed . They have marked the manners of the crocodile , as the torero has studied the manners of the bull ...
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... inhabitants were contented with carrying on a trifling contraband trade in dried meat and tobacco with the West India Islands , and with the Dutch colony of Essequibo , by the Rio Carony . Neither wine , oil , nor flour , three articles ...
... inhabitants were contented with carrying on a trifling contraband trade in dried meat and tobacco with the West India Islands , and with the Dutch colony of Essequibo , by the Rio Carony . Neither wine , oil , nor flour , three articles ...
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... inhabitants of Guiana , who do not live in savage independ- ence , at thirty - five thousand , we find nearly twenty - four thousand settled in the missions , and thus withdrawn as it were from the direct influence of the secular arm ...
... inhabitants of Guiana , who do not live in savage independ- ence , at thirty - five thousand , we find nearly twenty - four thousand settled in the missions , and thus withdrawn as it were from the direct influence of the secular arm ...
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