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 7
... remains for me to make known the small space of three degrees fifty- two minutes of longitude , that separates the present capital from the mouth of the Orinoco . Exact knowledge of the delta , and the course of the Rio Carony , is at ...
... remains for me to make known the small space of three degrees fifty- two minutes of longitude , that separates the present capital from the mouth of the Orinoco . Exact knowledge of the delta , and the course of the Rio Carony , is at ...
Page 11
... remains at the same level from the end of July till the 25th of August ; and then decreases progressively , but more slowly than it increased . It is at its minimum in January and February . In both worlds the rivers of the northern ...
... remains at the same level from the end of July till the 25th of August ; and then decreases progressively , but more slowly than it increased . It is at its minimum in January and February . In both worlds the rivers of the northern ...
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... remains for me to record here the notions I could procure respecting the second of these governments , that of the Catalonian Capuchins . Fatal civil dissensions and epidemic fevers have of late years diminished the long - increasing ...
... remains for me to record here the notions I could procure respecting the second of these governments , that of the Catalonian Capuchins . Fatal civil dissensions and epidemic fevers have of late years diminished the long - increasing ...
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... remains of that warlike people who were so formidable to the missionaries till 1733 and 1735 , at which period the respectable bishop Gervais de Labrid , t canon of the metropolitan chapter of Lyon , Father Lopez , and several other ...
... remains of that warlike people who were so formidable to the missionaries till 1733 and 1735 , at which period the respectable bishop Gervais de Labrid , t canon of the metropolitan chapter of Lyon , Father Lopez , and several other ...
Page 32
... remains . for me to speak of the configuration of the country between the Spanish missions of the Rio Carony , and the Portuguese missions of the Rio Branco or Parima . This is the country lying near the Lower Orinoco , the Esmeralda ...
... remains . for me to speak of the configuration of the country between the Spanish missions of the Rio Carony , and the Portuguese missions of the Rio Branco or Parima . This is the country lying near the Lower Orinoco , the Esmeralda ...
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