Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... Northern Antiquities . By Bishop PERCY . With an Abstract of the Eyrbiggia Saga , by Sir WALTER SCOTT . Edited by J. A. BLACKWELL . Marco Polo's Travels . The Trans- lation of Marsden . Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT . Matthew Paris's ...
... Northern Antiquities . By Bishop PERCY . With an Abstract of the Eyrbiggia Saga , by Sir WALTER SCOTT . Edited by J. A. BLACKWELL . Marco Polo's Travels . The Trans- lation of Marsden . Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT . Matthew Paris's ...
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... northern bank of the Orinoco , which stretches along the delta towards the Boca de Mariusas and the Punta Baxa , is very low , and is distinguishable at a distance only by the clumps of moriche palm - trees which embellish the passage ...
... northern bank of the Orinoco , which stretches along the delta towards the Boca de Mariusas and the Punta Baxa , is very low , and is distinguishable at a distance only by the clumps of moriche palm - trees which embellish the passage ...
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... northern torrid zone attain the greatest height nearly at the same period . The Ganges , the Niger , and the Gambia , reach the * Strabo , lib . 17 , p 789. Diod . Sic . , lib . 1 , c . 5 . 12 THE MEXICAN ZODIAC . maximum , like the ...
... northern torrid zone attain the greatest height nearly at the same period . The Ganges , the Niger , and the Gambia , reach the * Strabo , lib . 17 , p 789. Diod . Sic . , lib . 1 , c . 5 . 12 THE MEXICAN ZODIAC . maximum , like the ...
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... northern branch of the bifurcated river , this part of the Orinoco is highly important for the military defence of the country . All the channels that terminate in the bocas chicas , rise from the same point of the trunk of the Orinoco ...
... northern branch of the bifurcated river , this part of the Orinoco is highly important for the military defence of the country . All the channels that terminate in the bocas chicas , rise from the same point of the trunk of the Orinoco ...
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... northern bank of the Orinoco . This is the point which vessels must pass in sailing up toward Angostura by the northern channel , that of San Rafael , which is the broadest but the most shallow . Six leagues above the point where the ...
... northern bank of the Orinoco . This is the point which vessels must pass in sailing up toward Angostura by the northern channel , that of San Rafael , which is the broadest but the most shallow . Six leagues above the point where the ...
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