Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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Page 78
... limestone containing madrepores . * The name of Caribs , which I find for the first time in a letter of Peter Martyr d'Anghiera is derived from Calina and Caripuna , the 7 and p being transferred into r and b . is very remarkable , that ...
... limestone containing madrepores . * The name of Caribs , which I find for the first time in a letter of Peter Martyr d'Anghiera is derived from Calina and Caripuna , the 7 and p being transferred into r and b . is very remarkable , that ...
Page 93
... limestone which we saw at the Morro of Nueva Barcelona , and which is not transition limestone , though it contains beds of schistose jasper ( kieselschiefer ) . We rested on the night of the 16th of July in the Indian village of Santa ...
... limestone which we saw at the Morro of Nueva Barcelona , and which is not transition limestone , though it contains beds of schistose jasper ( kieselschiefer ) . We rested on the night of the 16th of July in the Indian village of Santa ...
Page 97
... limestone and gypsum ; varies according as periodical inundations accumulate mud on the lower grounds , or as the shock of the waters carries away from the small elevations the little soil that has covered them . Many solitary ...
... limestone and gypsum ; varies according as periodical inundations accumulate mud on the lower grounds , or as the shock of the waters carries away from the small elevations the little soil that has covered them . Many solitary ...
Page 101
... limestone mountains , but to those enormous blocks of granite and syenite , which , in limits very distinctly marked by nature , are found scattered on the north of Holland , Germany , and the countries of the Baltic . It seems to be ...
... limestone mountains , but to those enormous blocks of granite and syenite , which , in limits very distinctly marked by nature , are found scattered on the north of Holland , Germany , and the countries of the Baltic . It seems to be ...
Page 102
... limestone , transition- thonschiefer , and the mica - slates of the Tyrol . We arrived , on the 23rd of July , at the town of Nueva Barcelona , less fatigued by the heat of the Llanos , to which we had been long accustomed , than ...
... limestone , transition- thonschiefer , and the mica - slates of the Tyrol . We arrived , on the 23rd of July , at the town of Nueva Barcelona , less fatigued by the heat of the Llanos , to which we had been long accustomed , than ...
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