Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... rising from the bosom of the waters . The navigator , in proceeding along the channels of the delta of the Orinoco at night , sees with surprise the summit of the palm - trees illumined by large fires . These are the habitations of the ...
... rising from the bosom of the waters . The navigator , in proceeding along the channels of the delta of the Orinoco at night , sees with surprise the summit of the palm - trees illumined by large fires . These are the habitations of the ...
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... rising near the equator , have their 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 ...
... rising near the equator , have their 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 ...
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... rise , enter no more into the limit of perpetual snows , with the sole exception of the Paramos of Chita and Mucuchies , than the Alps of Abyssinia . Snowy mountains are much more rare in the torrid zone than is generally admitted ; and ...
... rise , enter no more into the limit of perpetual snows , with the sole exception of the Paramos of Chita and Mucuchies , than the Alps of Abyssinia . Snowy mountains are much more rare in the torrid zone than is generally admitted ; and ...
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... rise , however , does not become sensible at Cairo till toward the summer solstice ; and the water attains its greatest height at the end of the month of September . † t The river keeps at the same level till the middle of October ; and ...
... rise , however , does not become sensible at Cairo till toward the summer solstice ; and the water attains its greatest height at the end of the month of September . † t The river keeps at the same level till the middle of October ; and ...
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... rise perceptibly . In a very judicious discussion on the origin of the Rio Congo , t the attention of philosophers has been already called to the modifications which the periods of the risings must undergo in the course of a river , the ...
... rise perceptibly . In a very judicious discussion on the origin of the Rio Congo , t the attention of philosophers has been already called to the modifications which the periods of the risings must undergo in the course of a river , the ...
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