Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... sometimes undergoes very violent shocks , without the commotion being propagated across the Llanos . The fatal catastrophe of Cumana , on the 4th of February , 1797 , was not felt at Angostura ; but in the great earthquake of 1766 ...
... sometimes undergoes very violent shocks , without the commotion being propagated across the Llanos . The fatal catastrophe of Cumana , on the 4th of February , 1797 , was not felt at Angostura ; but in the great earthquake of 1766 ...
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... sometimes felt , which are confined to the basin of the Upper Orinoco and the Rio Negro . They appear to depend on a volcanic focus distant from that of the Caribbee Islands . We were told by the missionaries at Javita and San Fernando ...
... sometimes felt , which are confined to the basin of the Upper Orinoco and the Rio Negro . They appear to depend on a volcanic focus distant from that of the Caribbee Islands . We were told by the missionaries at Javita and San Fernando ...
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... sometimes yields six hundred pounds weight of sago , or meal ( for the word sago signifies meal in the dialect of Amboyna ) . Mr. Crawford , who resided a long time in the Indian Archipelago , calculates that an English acre could ...
... sometimes yields six hundred pounds weight of sago , or meal ( for the word sago signifies meal in the dialect of Amboyna ) . Mr. Crawford , who resided a long time in the Indian Archipelago , calculates that an English acre could ...
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... sometimes the river again sinks in April ; it attains its maximum in July ; 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 ...
... sometimes the river again sinks in April ; it attains its maximum in July ; 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 ...
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... sometimes to go on missions , and spread the germs of social life among the savages . Of all the vegetable productions of those countries , that which the industry of the Catalonian Capuchins has rendered the most celebrated is the tree ...
... sometimes to go on missions , and spread the germs of social life among the savages . Of all the vegetable productions of those countries , that which the industry of the Catalonian Capuchins has rendered the most celebrated is the tree ...
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