Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... DESCRIPTION OF SOUTH AMERICA - North of the River Amazon , and East of the Meridian of the Sierra Nevada de Merida . INDEX . Page • 153 · 199 228 · 285 • 409 PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO THE EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS OF.
... DESCRIPTION OF SOUTH AMERICA - North of the River Amazon , and East of the Meridian of the Sierra Nevada de Merida . INDEX . Page • 153 · 199 228 · 285 • 409 PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO THE EQUINOCTIAL REGIONS OF.
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... meridian as its sources so that by proceeding from Vieja Guyana to the south the traveller passes through the whole of the country in which geographers have successively placed an inland sea ( Mar Blanco ) , and the different lakes ...
... meridian as its sources so that by proceeding from Vieja Guyana to the south the traveller passes through the whole of the country in which geographers have successively placed an inland sea ( Mar Blanco ) , and the different lakes ...
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... meridian of Toledo . ( Novus Orbis , Paris , 1587. ) In this map , published before the voyage of Quiros , a group of islands is marked ( Infortunatæ Insula ) where the Friendly Islands ac- tually are . Ortelius ( 1570 ) already knew ...
... meridian of Toledo . ( Novus Orbis , Paris , 1587. ) In this map , published before the voyage of Quiros , a group of islands is marked ( Infortunatæ Insula ) where the Friendly Islands ac- tually are . Ortelius ( 1570 ) already knew ...
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... meridian of the confluence of the Apure and the Orinoco . By degrees it was advanced toward the east , § the western extremity being found to the south of the mouth of the Orinoco . This change produced others in the respective ...
... meridian of the confluence of the Apure and the Orinoco . By degrees it was advanced toward the east , § the western extremity being found to the south of the mouth of the Orinoco . This change produced others in the respective ...
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... meridian . Beside the lakes Parima and Cassipa , a third was traced upon the maps , from which the Aprouague ( Apurwaca ) was made to issue . It was then a general prac- tice among geographers to attach all rivers to great lakes . By ...
... meridian . Beside the lakes Parima and Cassipa , a third was traced upon the maps , from which the Aprouague ( Apurwaca ) was made to issue . It was then a general prac- tice among geographers to attach all rivers to great lakes . By ...
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Amazon amphibolic ancient Angostura appears Apure arrobas auriferous banks basin Batabano branches Brazil Cape Caracas Caribs Caripe Carony Carthagena Cayo Cerro coast colonies contains Cordillera cultivation Cumana Cumanacoa Cundinamarca direction Dorado east eastern Essequibo Europe extend formations gneiss gold granite Grenada Guiana gulf Havannah height Indians inhabitants island of Cuba isthmus Jura limestone kilogrammes knot Laguna lake land latitude limestone Llanos Lower Orinoco Magdalena maps Mariara meridian Mexico mica-slate mountains mouth nations natives northern Nueva Barcelona observed Omaguas Orinoco palm-tree parallel peninsula of Araya Peru piastres plains population port province Punta Quito Raleigh region ridge Rio Branco Rio Negro rise river rocks sandstone Santa shore Sierra Parime slaves soil South America southern Spaniards Spanish square leagues strata sugar summits surface table-land tertiary tion toises toises high town trachyte tributary streams Trinidad valley Venezuela volcanic vols voyage West Indies western
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