Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... mouth of the Carony , made a courageous resistance to Sir Walter Raleigh , whom the Spanish writers of the conquest know only by the name of the pirate Reali . The third town , now the capital of the province , is fifty leagues west of ...
... mouth of the Carony , made a courageous resistance to Sir Walter Raleigh , whom the Spanish writers of the conquest know only by the name of the pirate Reali . The third town , now the capital of the province , is fifty leagues west of ...
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... mouths of the Orinoco have an advantage over every other part in Terra Firma . They afford the most prompt communications with the Peninsula . The Voyage from Cadiz to Punta Barima is performed some- times in eighteen or twenty days ...
... mouths of the Orinoco have an advantage over every other part in Terra Firma . They afford the most prompt communications with the Peninsula . The Voyage from Cadiz to Punta Barima is performed some- times in eighteen or twenty days ...
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... mouth of the Orinoco . Exact knowledge of the delta , and the course of the Rio Carony , is at once interest- ing to hydrography and to European commerce . When a vessel coming from sea would enter the prin- cipal mouth of the Orinoco ...
... mouth of the Orinoco . Exact knowledge of the delta , and the course of the Rio Carony , is at once interest- ing to hydrography and to European commerce . When a vessel coming from sea would enter the prin- cipal mouth of the Orinoco ...
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... mouths of the Amazon . It is curious to observe in the lowest degree of human civilization the existence of a whole tribe depending on one single species of palm - tree , similar to those insects which feed on one and the same flower ...
... mouths of the Amazon . It is curious to observe in the lowest degree of human civilization the existence of a whole tribe depending on one single species of palm - tree , similar to those insects which feed on one and the same flower ...
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... mouths in a much higher latitude , though still within the tropics . The Nile and the Rio de la Plata direct their course , in the two opposite hemispheres , from the torrid zone towards the temperate . * As long as , confounding the ...
... mouths in a much higher latitude , though still within the tropics . The Nile and the Rio de la Plata direct their course , in the two opposite hemispheres , from the torrid zone towards the temperate . * As long as , confounding the ...
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